Day 6, Thursday, November 21
Read:Genesis 8:6-22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. (v. 22)
I grew up in a place with two seasons: medium hot and very hot, hence I always loved the thought of cooler weather. My elementary school featured November art projects abundant with pumpkins, corn, turning leaves, and pilgrims. Later, geography became my favorite subject simply because our books were full of pictures of beautiful places around the U.S. and the world. My favorites were always of New England in the fall, and I couldn’t wait to grow up and go see those beautiful pictures come to life.
I guess my hot, dusty West Texas childhood inspired in me a permanent passion for the four seasons. A little, but important detail if you’ve been without them. Watching the cycle of birth and growth and death and rest in nature can teach us so much about our Creator.
It does my heart good to go back and read God’s promise following an event of judgment on evil: a cataclysmic flood that covered the earth. The seasons, said God – spring and fall, summer and winter – shall not cease. As long as there’s an earth, the chronological time that God set in place will function as he ordained it. The axis and tilt will remain, the moon will wax and wane, the tides will ebb and flow, the sun will shine appropriately as the earth spins. The days and seasons will march on until he stops them.
As you pray, thank God for seedtime and harvest, summer and winter, day and night – and the seasons that color your own life.
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