Oct
13
Cold, Creation, and Redemption
Filed Under Christian Living
It was cold last night. I didn’t get an official reading off of my handy thermometer this morning but I heard we inched into the thirties. Now I know, compared to the folks in the North who are in snow right now, a forty degree morning sounds pretty toasty, but it was a bit chilly to me this morning. The coming fall and winter remind me of God’s good purpose on the thrid day of creation:
And let them [the sun and moon] be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years…
God intended seasons and cold mornings. He intended the leaves to fall from the trees in October and the flowers to burst from the ground in May. When we take simple pleasure in the first brisk morning air of the fall we proclaim like our Maker did many, many years ago, “It is good!”
But more than that, when Jesus began his ministry he said:
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.
Here we have time announcing something altogether different from the wonder of creation. We see time announcing the arrival of redemption. There was a morning when our Lord rose from sleep and declared that it was time for him to preach the gospel.
See in this God’s good gift of time as a messenger of both creation and redemption. So, when we rise in the morning let us say “This is the day the Lord has made,” and “Your mercies are new each morning.” Let us call on our God who created us and redeemed us.
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