A CUP HALF FULL....Understanding important truths from the Bible….

Ecclesiastes 3:11A  NKJV

 He has made everything beautiful in its time.

The writer in the text above gives us both sides of the truth.  There is beauty in the world.  As there is a time for that beauty there is another time and that will not be beautiful.

We have a choice to either find beauty or always seek out ugliness.  In Psalm 8:3 the Psalmist is considering creation which God has made.  There seems to be a wonder in his voice.  Creation has such an effect that he can say in 8:1 that only God’s glory excels it in beauty.

We, Darlene and I, have a home out from town in what we will call the country.  We often, nearly daily, sit outside in the early morning quietness and watch the beauty unfold as the day begins.

A deer with two fawns crosses the meadow before us.  The hummingbirds fly in their unique way.  They feed and fight, flash their brilliant colors, and ignore everything around them.  All around us birds fly and sing.  Mockingbirds display in leaps and songs.  Cardinals in all their vivid color crowd our scenery. 

The flowers bloom in dramatic colors.  Roses, red, white, yellow, and pink are in healthy display.  There are both wild and domestic sunflowers which, along with lantanas, attract a number of different butterflies in their native beauty.

We hear the neighbor’s turkeys and another’s donkey braying.  Nothing is loud.  The singing of the birds is undisturbed.  And if this is an especially good day, we see the two red-tailed hawks which live in our area part-time.

I’m sure somewhere in this the cup is half empty.  A friend taught me in the recent past that I don’t have to look past the cup half full.  And now I exclaim with the Preacher, He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Amen!