Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.
Autumn Colors
The Autumnal colors seem a little bit late. By now, usually the trees’ palettes include oranges and reds… but we seem stuck in green and brown. But I know it’s coming, and I see signs.
I could attempt to recall my College Plant Biology Class and attribute the colors of fall to a chemical reaction caused by an increase of something-or-other due to the decrease in both average daily temperature and total daily sunlight hours.
Or I could remember that God sets the seasons, changes the colors of His trees, sends the brisk first frost, covers His fields in a blanket of cold restful snow, hatches the acorn egg beneath the mulch of decades and makes sunflowers both bright and tasty. And I could remember why He does those things.
The annual regular change of seasons is a reminder of God’s faithfulness. Even when our society slips farther from adoration of Him, He sends Autumn. Even when we notice less and less that He loves, He changes the color of your elm tree. Even when we forget to thank Him, He brings fall, and fall weather, and fall afternoons, and fall football.
I sometimes have not liked fall, because our calendars seem to be slipping inexorably down towards winter. But I’ve been wrong.
Fall is God’s faithfulness today. Autumn is a nudge towards noticing that God is reliable. "