As I write this I can look out my office window on this cold and misty day and see the handiwork of God as the leaves begin to turn orange, red and yellow. I’m thankful that God is both great and good. He is great because He is incomparable. I’ve always had a hard time staying inside the lines when I colored a picture as a little boy. I was impatient, wanted to move on to the next crayon, and just couldn’t concentrate on the details of the picture I was coloring. However, God in His majestic beauty colors each leaf on every tree varying shades of beautiful colors. This puts me in awe of who God is. He is beyond imagination in His creativity. He not only has the ability to turn leaves a different color each year, but He is also able to turn a cold and hard heart into a warm and soft one. He creates worshipers out of rebels; He takes what is ugly and makes it beautiful!

“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?” (Isaiah 40:12 ESV)

God, that’s who!

God is good because He shares with us. We love because He loved us first. We give because He gave. We are merciful because He is merciful. And the list goes on. Because of God’s influence in our hearts through the life-transforming gospel, the world is a better place to live. The world isn’t better because we have intrinsic goodness; the world is better because God re-creates in us goodness. We mirror the image of God best as we are reformed after the likeness of Jesus.

“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.” (Romans 8:29 ESV)

So, as you take a walk or trip to the mountains and see the beautiful tapestry of colors let it remind you of God’s grace that changes our hearts every day. Let it also remind us that we are to submit under the gracious hand of God who is changing us from glory to glory.

“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV)

Grace & Peace,