It's a rainy day. Pouring down from slate grey skies. The dry earth soaks up that nourishing moisture...but it's not much fun for walking or golfing or swimming or soaking up the rays or doing about anything outside. Just a blah, sad-looking afternoon.
And that's life, isn't it? Day before yesterday the sun shone brilliantly, the birds sang symphonies, and the sky was so spectacularly blue it almost hurt your heart. So much beauty. So much happiness. Yet today that seems like a far distant memory.
But guess what? That sun still shines strong and bright--just hidden for the moment by the clouds and rain. That blue sky? Still there in all it's magnificence giving glory to it's Creator. We just can't see it...for the moment.
So on days like this--when the rain pours...or the sorrow of loss overwhelms...or the worries of life threaten to swamp your rocking boat--it's good to remember that this too shall pass. That our God is still on the throne...forever working...moving...superintending...loving...forgiving...restoring...redeeming.
And making all, all, all things new.
On those challenging, frustrating, discouraging days that come to all of us, it helps to remember who is in control--our great, gracious, good and glorious God. What He is doing--bringing beauty from ashes, making all things new, bringing our ultimate good and His greater glory out of all things. And where we're headed--to glory...to the marriage supper of the Lamb...to that wondrous day when faith becomes sight and joy reigns supreme and we'll each see our wondrous Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus, face to face.
Oh glorious day.
We're not home yet, though. So today, just in case you need the tiniest reminder, the littlest foretaste of His lavish joy and perfect love, you might enjoy the video below. It's a short wedding video of two precious-beyond-words young people who love one another and love their Redeemer. Their love-- wonderful as it is--is still a pale, small reflection of God's unimaginably extravagant love for them...and for you.
What a love. What a Lord. What a hope.
So even on the hard days, when our hearts hurt and our hope fades and our faith falters, help us, Father, to remember Whose we are, what You are doing, and where we headed. Come Lord Jesus, our Heavenly Bridegroom, come.
"Prone to wander, Lord I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above."
Mary Norris and Matt - Preview from Good Earth Films on Vimeo.
To God--our loving, gracious, and glorious Bridegroom--be all the glory.
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