In just a few days, according to the calendar, we'll experience a change of seasons and move into fall. However, as I look around on my mountaintop, I think the change of season has already occurred! There are acorns and hickory nuts all over my carport and driveway. Leaves are beginning to change colors. Some trees have already dropped some of their leaves. And the air has a definite crispness to it that is not at all summer-like!
When we lived in Florida I really missed this change of seasons. Things change there from season to season, but the changes are much more subtle than they are here in the mountains. One of my favorite things about living here has always been watching the seasons change. The stark black and white and gray (sometimes too much white!!) of winter gives way to the unpredictability of spring.....warm weather and flowers one day, then snow and blustery wind the next. Summer follows with all kinds of flowers, all the shades of green that the variety of foliage here produces. Warm, sometimes even hot, weather. Bright sunshine. And then autumn comes round again. Different colors. Crisp air. And so the cycle continues.
Life goes on. Here in my part of the world, animals are busy gathering nuts for winter. Farmers are harvesting their hay. Wood is being cut and split to provide heat during the cold winter months. All this happens just as it does at this time every year.
But there are a lot of changes in our world as well. We're in an election "season". There is chaos in the Middle East. Newscasters are talking about Arab Spring giving way to Arab Winter. So, while much in our world remains the same and goes on as it has for years, much in our world is changing.
In spite of that, the unchanging truth is this: "I, the LORD, do not change." (Malachi 3:8)
Seasons come and seasons go. "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Even as we experience change of seasons, and even as we experience change and chaos in our world, this truth remains. Seasons change, but God does not.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8 NASB)
The first fall after we moved from FLA after almost 20 years, I spent hours out on the balcony watching every leaf change & the squirrels grabbing the acorns . . . I had sooooo missed God's beautiful work in the change of seasons and couldn't wait for the snow!! He is our awesome God Who created such beauty that we can enjoy even in this fallen world - if only we take time to see it. But, Oh my, it does not begin to compare to the beauty that awaits us when we finally get Home! Can ewe even begin to imagine!! Maranatha!!
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