6-15-10
Beauty.. What makes something beautiful? Is it a permanent condition?
I’ve been to Albert’s Pike many times. I considered it beautiful. I haven’t seen it since the flood except in pictures, but it’s not so beautiful now. The rocks and trees are still there. There is still water in the river. All the things that defined it as beautiful to me…they’re still there.
What changed? Nothing really…everything just got re-arranged. Including people and all their belongings.
God thought up beauty in the first place. It reflects His character. But to be beautiful there must be harmony, balance, symmetry, perfect rhythm… Like Him.
I can’t achieve that on my own. How grateful I am that He has made provision for my failure.
“He is my refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. I will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
There IS a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall. God will help her at break of day….
Be still, and know that I am God. ..The Lord Almighty is with us…” (selected verses from Ps. 46)
Father, as families bury their dead, remembering the horror of this flood, and grieving over the precious ones who are snatched away, I beg You to make Yourself known thru these circumstances. Lord, I ask that You bring not only comfort and healing, but new and deeper dependence on You. Protect them from lies of the enemy, make them to see truth, never doubting or questioning Your love.
‘Hear O Lord, and be merciful, O Lord, be their help, turn their wailing into dancing, remove their sackcloth and clothe them with joy…’ (Ps. 30:10,11)
