Thursday, December 23, 2021
The Beauty
In Situ.
God’s Way
For All Generations.
Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands to God in heaven.
Ephesians 6:18
Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.
Words of Grace For Today
Lift up our hearts … as well as our hands … to God in heaven.
This will then enable us to be inspired by the Holy Spirit to choose, with each thing we do, to work like mad for all people in God’s good creation.
Otherwise we will inevitably work, heartlessly, and without pause, consuming all we can on our way, destroying everything in our wake.
Locusts come in hoards and work their little hearts out.
When they leave, they leave because there is nothing more to consume.
When they leave there is nothing left behind for anyone else.
When they leave the goodness of creation must be re-established by God’s healing work built in to nature … if it can.
This we do not want to be as a species, because when we try to move on there is really no place for us to move to
on God’s good creation of earth, our host planet.
Instead,
we pray with endless supplications
that we would work with our hands
as honey bees do.
They work at least as hard as locusts.
They work with the plants like the locusts do.
They work differently, instead of consuming and destroying and moving on …
They work for the benefit of all creation, helping plants to flower and produce food, for us all.
In their hives they create enough honey to sustain their hive’s next generations and
they create enough honey to provide for many others to feed from the sweet products of their tireless labours.
Locusts destroy and move on to destroy more.
Honey bees work in the eco-sytem and they stay in that eco-system (if we allow them to) to help it continue to provide for this generation and many to come.
So we pray endlessly with supplication and thanksgiving that God has provided our ability to work hard, and to work as honey bees, providing for this generation and for many generations of saints to come.