Just One of Her Many Talents

Oh, it’s beginning to look, feel and smell like the most glorious time of the year! The leaves are beginning to change, mornings and evenings are cooler, pumpkin patches are crowded and football is on the TV. How can you not love this time of year? Seriously, if your favorite time of the year is not Fall, I feel like I need to pray for you.

As I was wandering the produce section of the grocery store just a bit ago, the thought went through my head as I was looking at pumpkins, gourds, corn, bananas, etc. My goodness! How much fun God must have had on the day he created all this fun stuff! 

Then as an exclamation mark of those thoughts, I drove up my driveway with the windows down, and “Hymn of Heaven” blaring on my radio, and all three of our horses lifted their heads and looked my way as if to sing themselves, “Holy, holy is the Lord!” 

All of creation was made to praise God. All of it. The wonderful Fall changing trees, the wispy clouds in the blue skies, the rolling hills, the majestic mountains, the corn on stalks, the horses in the pasture, down to the pumpkin on my porch. It all has a purpose and that is to point to Jesus.

Remember that sycamore tree? The one Zacchaeus needed to see Jesus (Luke 19). Well, that little tree started as a seed and grew, perhaps with the single purpose of lifting Zacchaeus to see Jesus. Day in and day out, for at least ten years, it had grown to reach maturity in strength and stature. It probably endured drought as well as flood, sunshine and darkest of nights. It grew to lift up a little short tax collector out on one of its limbs so he could see the Savior of the world.

Let’s do our part in praising the Creator and cry out “Holy! Holy! Holy!” with all of creation and look around and see who we can “lift up” to see Jesus. 

Basically, go out on a limb for Jesus today!