Today I enjoyed a tour around my front yard enjoying the blossoms that are thriving there. It made me think of a couple of Bible verses that have always comforted me, but in these crazy, unprecedented times mean all the more.
The first was, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night, shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22 As you may remember, God made this promise to Noah soon after he and his family came out of the ark after the flood that had covered and destroyed the entire earth. With some people looking around our world today and wondering if it will ever be back to “normal” this verse seems just as much needed as it must have been for the patriarch Noah.
The second verse that came to mind so readily while I enjoyed my front yard blossoms was, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they neither toil nor spin, yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Matthew 6:28-30. Now it was the flowers that brought this verse to mind, but more than flowers, as I go to the grocery store and look for nonexistent toilet paper or flour or mushroom soup etc. I can be sure that God has not forgotten my family or yours. He knows our needs and will provide.
I hope that these short thoughts and pictures can encourage you as they have encouraged me today.
God bless and stay well!
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