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Tides of Life
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Moore's
Chapel Home Missions & Evangelism Devotions
Beautiful Children's
Devotions - Teen
Devotions -
The
Walk To The Cross
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The desert and the parched land will be glad...they will see the glory
of the LORD, the splendor of our God (Isaiah 35:1a, 2e NIV). Surrounded by lush ferns, towering cedar pines, and majestic mountains, the tidal basin of Washington's Puget Sound lies flat and lifeless. Only dead branches, rotting logs, and old tires emerge from this salt-dried waste land of brownish gray. But hours later, the silver-plated sea spreads out across the barren land covering it with the sunset's burgundy, mauve, and dark pink colors. Two times each day, 365 days a year, a "dry and thirsty land where there is no water" is transformed into sea of glorious colors. Perhaps we, as God's creations, also experience the ebb and flow of emotional and spiritual tides. We climb lush mountain sides and descend into valleys gray with death. We taste the freshness of living water and the dry, salty taste of dust. Maybe it is the harsh contrasts of life that hone our sensitivity to our world and our God--life and death, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, and the glory of God and the despair of this world. The rhythm of the tide gives us hope that refreshment follows dryness and the humility that our high times will be followed by the low tides of life. But above it all, shines the glory of God.
© James N. Watkins |
