As I'm writing this, the corn outside my office window is being harvested. The massive International combine is chewing through every 7 foot stalk, spewing cobs, fodder, and dust as it flies out the back of the chopper blades. After a few rounds, the small field beside the church building is reduced to a golden-yellow carpet of corn stobs sprinkled with chunks of bright red corn cob. The millions of pieces of grain make their way through the unloading auger of the combine...onto the truck, where they'll join millions of other pieces of grain floating down the rivers of this heartland.
"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22) Though the scenery changes, there is a constant. Though the corn field has been harvested, the cycle always remains the same. A harvested field of corn will hibernate wheat through the winter...the wheat stubble will be the foundation for next year's soybeans, and out of the bean fodder will come another field of corn. Things change, but the cycle remains unbroken.
In our lives...things change. We graduate from high school. We get married. We have children. Our children go to school. They have children of their own. Things change, but there is always a uniform constant in all of our lives: God's power. He has set in motion things that will last until this earth is no more, and though seasons change...and though time changes our bodies...God's power will, at all times, remain.
The cornfields out of your office don't look like that! It's a pretty picture though. I guess I'll have to start reading your blog. I didn't know that you had one.
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