Just now as I was sitting here on my back deck, a little bird, mostly brown with a pinkish-red head, landed in between the posts of the railing. He or she didn't mean to join me, and after the little thing cocked its head and gave me a glance, it rocketed away. The natural world is my favorite link to Jesus. I see Him in everything. This morning, as I was driving up my driveway, returning from taking my son to the middle school, two doves were poking around in my new landscaping out front. Looked like one of them had found some suitable twigs for crafting a nest. God at work, all around me. Every single day, whether or not I care to dwell on it. Whether or not I am too busy with the many things that are passing away like two fistfuls of sand to enjoy them, to learn more and more about who He is from them. To hear the messages of joy and love they are sounding all around me. "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead..." (Romans 1:20, NKJV). One day, and possibly very soon, Jesus Christ will return for those of us who love Him. He will openly rapture us, carrying us to our eternal home. The world as we know it will be revealed as having been a dim foretaste of the glories, the colors, the sights and the sounds of paradise. What if I, as Michael Card so eloquently stated in one of his iconic Christian songs, seek to know Him "in the now"? Will not that moment be all the richer, all the sweeter, all the more glorious? What if I praise and adore Him now, communing with His precious Holy Spirit in all of the many ways He has provided, each and every single day? Will the day of His return not be more like a wonderful, loving home-going of a child a parent so desperately wants to hold within His arms than if I merely rest in my salvation while going about an earthly-minded life? Lord, let me long for home, and fan that longing into a flame that burns brightly for Jesus!!
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