The Great Engineer.
It is summer in northeast Georgia. It is hot, dangerously hot. When you are outside the humidity makes you feel like you are melting. Adding to your misery is the fact that August is here and it is the hottest month in northeast Georgia.
Yes, we are sweltering here in northeast Georgia, but there is some good news. I stepped outside my study a few minutes ago and I saw a yellow leaf falling from a tree. You see, the seasons don’t stand still. Tonight will be longer than last night and tomorrow the daylight hours will be shorter than yesterday’s. The dark green leaves on the trees are beginning to lose their color and soon we will start to see more red and yellow and falling leaves.
This is a wonderful fact; the Great Engineer of the universe has blessed us by designing the seasons to never stop changing. In Acts Chapter 14 we read that the changing seasons are a testimony to the supremacy and goodness of God.
Consider this; it is the long hot days of summer that causes our tomatoes and watermelons to grow. It is also true that when winter time comes the peach trees must have several bitterly cold nights to produce good Georgia peaches. It is good homemade peach ice cream that helps to make these hot summer days bearable.
The Great Engineer says in Genesis chapter eight, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.” When I go to gather my tomatoes and have to wipe the sweat from my face, I will give glory to God because the sweat of my brow is a testimony that His promises will never fail.
“ To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature.”
II Peter 1:1-4 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/2pe.1.1-4.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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