In honor of dying leaves...

Nov

Monday,

So, I heard this at our Providence College Ministry Fall Retreat and it really has stuck with me. I guess I should share it... (and a pic for visualizing taken at Fall Retreat last year)

It's fall. The leaves are changing. They are beautiful, and we see God's beauty. We can see his creativity, his majesty, and his glory. They are doing just what they were created to do! But have we really stopped to think about that... What are they doing? They are dying. They are fulfilling their purpose through death. Without their dying, the glory wouldn't be as great.

Sobering thought really. The same is true of my life. Maybe its not necessarily physical death, but dying to myself is necessary. This should not be just once a season, but a daily dying. Through that God gets the glory. Death is no longer bleak, but victory!

1 Corinthians 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 55"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Happy Fall!