It’s been so dry lately that some tees are starting to drop some leaves. And, if I remember what Professor Rehwalt so patiently taught us, that is just a device for the trees to save water. So nothing to worry about except that it is dry and the area is in need of rain.
Wasn’t it just a year ago we were often saying, “When will it ever stop?” and we were referring to the plentiful rain then.
So the question on the table is, “Why don’t we appreciate the day?” Enjoy the thing that lies at hand, appreciate the variety and the riches of God’s blessings? Instead of longing for something that lies in the future.
Look at some of the experiences written in the Bible. We all know the story of Daniel in the lion’s den. Do we think of the fact that what brought him there was doing God’s will in a world where his enemies were plotting to destroy him? It was not by chance at all. Or we read of Phillip meeting the Ethiopian while he was on his homeward trip. That was not a chance encounter either. God planned it so the Christian could explain the Bible prophecy about Jesus to this heathen, who went on his way rejoicing as a baptized child of God.
Or Peter with the Centurion in Syria. Not a chance encounter, but one arranged. Yet Peter might have said, “Why should I make this trip, it is interfering with my plans to preach here today.” But no, he went and found a man who “feared God”. And ministered to him and his friends and family, and the Holy Spirit blessed the meeting.
So, tomorrow, for example, let your mind say “I was glad when they said unto me, let us go and worship our God”. Then rest your mind with these simple, yet profound, words of the apostle Paul, “If there is any virtue, and anything praiseworthy, think of these things?”. Phil 4,8.
Though He giveth, or He taketh,
God His children ne’er forsaketh.
His the loving purpose solely,
To preserve them, [pure and holy”. LSB 725.
GPD 7/19/08
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