For the past couple weeks now, as I have been walking in the early morning, I have been met with a shocking temperature drop!! Venturing into the crisp, cool air of the morning is a welcome change from the intense summer heat and dryness we've had!! I saw a headline in the paper, a few years ago asking, "Has Autumn Been Cancelled?" and thought that changing seasons is the one thing we can depend on!! The Lord has it all under control. It may be shorter or longer than what we think we'd like. Sometimes summer seems to never end and, at other times, winter seems too long. But winter, spring, summer, and fall, God wants and will have them all! I can just picture the Lord with His golden brush painting each individual leaf on those massive trees that line the hillsides. Red, green, brown, orange, and gold are the colors our Creator has chosen to decorate this season with! He takes His golden paint brush and paints up the world with gorgeous autumn colors. He also adds His holy touch to our lives if we let Him! He is painting our lives in His special way, so that we might add color to this dark world. What if this was a land without color? It would be boring, dull, and gloomy. One of the reasons God created the seasons was to add His golden touch!

We are to be a light to the world we live in. Hopefully, we're bringing life to our surroundings. Let's give the Lord permission to change us, to add that splash of gold! Then we can be a welcome change in this life filled with people who need a dab of paint upon their minds and hearts. Their lives can be changed from glory to glory until they are a work of art so that the Master of their soul can say, "Now you are My child, and I can display you for all the world to see."

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years." (Genesis 1:14) and also, "The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out." (Proverbs 13:9).

Have a God-filled fall season and enjoy His beautiful handiwork, but most importantly add some color to someone else's life this season by showing them the love of Christ!!

In His grip, 
Larry