“But the LORD shall endure for ever” (Psalm 9:7).

Charlie stood looking at the flower bed just outside their dining room window. The daffodils and crocuses were peeking up through the ground. Seeing this, he turned to his wife and said, “Well finally! After this long and hard winter I wondered if they would ever come up again.” Susanna left the kitchen and came and stood beside her husband looking out the dining room window. They had lived in this home for many years, and the flower bed brought them great joy throughout the early spring as well as summer. Some of the flowers that they would plant would even last quite late into the fall. “You know, honey, seeing the flowers that are springing up and knowing that we will enjoy them for a few short months reminds me that nothing on this earth, apart from people, is eternal. I am so glad that we belong to the Lord who shall endure for ever,” Charlie said to his wife. They both agreed that life here on earth is relatively short. The seasons come, and the seasons go. The flowers spring up. The trees bud. But all too soon fall will come, and the flowers will need to be trimmed back, and the trees will lose their leaves. All of these are just great reminders that our precious God is awesome and He endures forever.

For today: The more I see the coming and going of seasons, the greater is my anticipation of that eternal city with my eternal God!