As I'm sitting out back having some quiet time in the word I get distracted by the sound of the water in the pond, the rustling of the leaves in the wind and all the wonderful sound that nature puts together!
I begin to think how beautiful fall is and hows it's my favorite time of the year. Then I wonder why? Outside of the the crazy heat leaving it seems a little morbid, everything is dying. The trees, the grass, the plants. All the animals are leaving.
But oh how beautiful!!!
Then it hit me, God is the only one who can make death beautiful!!! Fall. Everything is dying, but in such beauty!! The only beautiful death I've ever experienced has been those who God is the center of their lives. There's no doubt about their eternity. There's more happiness then sadness in their dying. They've gone HOME!!
Just as the trees, they haven't really died at all. In the spring the trees get a new beginning, a new chance at life. These people get an eternity of life, a much more wonderful life then they could ever dream of having here!!!
Just as in everything there's always an opposite. If there's a heaven, then there must be a hell. Those are the sad funerals, the ones when you aren't positive they're in heaven. You don't know if they had a relationship with the Savior. Please don't let that be you! Romans 10:9 says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead then you will be saved. The old is gone and the new has come!!
Let your spring start this fall!! Let God make death beautiful in your life!!
~Awaken Us~
Brenna Stanford
