SUNDAY EDITORIAL

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When people start talking ugly around me I like to remind them that God made nothing ugly, and He made cockroaches.

Man now has taken many things and made them ugly, ugly to the point that it should be washed away with a strong wind and rain.

I ask when is the last time you stopped to smell the refreshed air after a good strong rain. The wind so strong it can lift a building, leaves behind the newness of the earth.

I love driving out in the country were the pollutions of the cities and towns have not taken over. Walking by flowers, able to smell the flavor of the buds and blooms.

I ponder on the thought that maybe God at times stops and says I can not smell My roses, I can not smell the ocean, the freshness of the leaves on the trees. My earth stinks of the smell of smoke, imagines and waste.

Does He stop and look at all He created and want to vomit it all out of His mouth, as in the beginning He spoke all the goodness, beauty and glory into this world.

I ponder on the thought of how though He knows in the end it will be returned to the glory He intented. Now much more damage can we do before He decides enough?

I ponder on how we who are saved, think of the future with Him, but how often do we stop to think of earth returned also to its former beauty?

Oh what a glorious God we serve. Something beautiful is all around us today right now if we look. How much more beautiful it will be then.

Today as I sit here in Louisiana the Gulf is washing oil ashore doing even more damage to the coastlands. All around the world it is one tusmani after another, earth quakes falling as dominios across the earth.

I ponder, we reap what we sow. We have treated this earth with disrespect, just as we have treated our very souls.

Matthew 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew 24:6-8 (in Context) Matthew 24 (Whole Chapter)
Mark 13:8
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Mark 13:7-9 (in Context) Mark 13 (Whole Chapter)
Luke 21:11
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:10-12 (in Context) Luke 21 (Whole Chapter)

I ponder on the thougth that earthquakes are not listed one time in the old Testament. The Old Testament does mention the earth opening up but does not use the word earthquake.

Genesis 4:11
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis 41:55-57 (in Context) Genesis 41 (Whole Chapter) Numbers 16:32
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Numbers 16:31-33 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter) Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Numbers 26:9-11 (in Context) Numbers 26 (Whole Chapter) Deuteronomy 11:6
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

Something is beautiful, if we look we shall see it all around us. Just some thoughts to ponder on.

God Bless Indeed
recj/LJG