In the Fall, the Creator shows out, painting riotous colors as He decorates the globe.
The completed picture is as if He'd held His camera out to take a selfie...because there are ways He and Fall are alike.
Earth gets a temperature reprieve and we summer refugees feel invigorated by Fall's crisp air.
From the Twenty-Third Psalm..."He takes me to lush pastures, He leads me to refreshing water. He restores my strength."
God is in the business of refreshing our souls.
Fall in NW AR is wonderful; we wait anxiously for the maples to turn so we can do a leaf-peeping tour and take in that blaze of glory. One day believers will fall on their faces before the One who made the maples...and He will outshine their dazzle.
We agree with the seraphs when they said "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord...His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!"
Fall makes us up look up to consider creation and wonder about her Maker.
"From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and the sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God." Romans 1:20
God leaves fingerprints all over Fall's adornment.
Fall is "fair warning" that winter is coming. The Lord warns that our lives are temporary and fleeting; we should make provision. The squirrels are giving thought to tomorrow and we should, too.
Jesus began the beatitudes with "blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them." We gain heaven when we recognize our spiritual poverty and, as the next beatitude says, mourn. That's another way to say "repent".
In all the peoples of the world, there are really only two kinds...the humble and the proud. The humble have found shelter.
Harp's was first to get the Cinderella pumpkins this fall in Fayetteville. I glistened the day I loaded up this fine one (and several others) for our porches. They are worth it; they're a faith pledge that cooler weather is on the way.
My season of life is on the outer edge of fall, moving toward winter. And the time given to mankind has a seasonal timeframe. But the Lord of the Harvest is outside of time, waiting as each soul makes their choice.
In Revelation, it talks about the final harvest and speaks of an angel swinging his sickle over the earth and gathering the "grapes" from the vineyard of the earth, then tossing them into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
That is not the preferred option.
God is good to refresh us, show us the beauty of His glory, point us upward, shelter us, and tell us how the story comes out. Our part is to choose Him.
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