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| Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA |
I’m happy to be home from California. I had an amazing visit with my sister and brother-in-law and it was an honor and a privilege to be a part of his ordination. Their church is going through a similar process to the one that our church went through a couple of years ago. It is exciting to see their vision and the passion with which they are pursuing it.
California is a beautiful place. If it weren’t for the hordes of other people who share that sentiment, I could probably live there. But, alas, the traffic is ungodly awful, and I’m pretty satisfied with the beauty of the place that God has chosen for me to live; Grove, Oklahoma.
On our trip from the airport to my sister’s house, we took a drive up the Pacific Coast Highway just as the sun was going down. During those moments when the traffic was at a standstill, I got to witness some of the most beautiful colors on God’s artist palette. Bobby tried to get a few pictures, but there was just no way to get an accurate portrayal of the splendor that we were seeing.
As the darkness closed in around us and the traffic thinned out, we made our way on to Ventura in awed silence. Then Bobby shared a verse of Scripture with me that brought it all home.
He said, “Whenever we witness the most beautiful things here on earth, I always think of Job 26:14. It says, 'Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?'”
All of this beauty is just the fringe of what God is capable of. Heaven will be exponentially more beautiful. What we see now are the remnants of His creation, marred by sin’s curse and man’s foolishness. But one day, we will see Him face to face and the remnants of sin and its ugly impact will be totally wiped away.
As the songwriter penned, “What a day that will be, when my Jesus I shall see…” Nothing on earth compares to the beauty of His glory. I can’t wait for the day when we are finally home.
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| Down the road from my house in Grove, OK |
