Psalm 85:11
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
look down from heaven.
Marge had denied God's existence for years. She had grown up
in a huge city, and she rarely got out of it. Her argument against God was that
a loving being wouldn't allow people to live in such terrible conditions as
existed in so much of the city. Argument did nothing to persuade her. Marge's
mind was made up.
When she was twenty-six, she went with friends into the
mountains of Vermont. Like a wide-eyed child, she soaked in the awesome beauty
of the hills. One evening, at sunset, her heart was filled with an unbelievable
joy, and she somehow knew that God did exist. Cities weren't God's fault, they
were the creation of men and women. Nature was God's expression of reality, and
that reality was too good to deny. The truth rose up out of God's green earth
to convince here. Never again would she say God did not exist.
Prayer: What a wonderful world we live in, Lord. You give us
happiness, and yet we create sorrow. Turn our tears into laughter, God, that we
may enjoy this blessed gift of life we have been given. Amen.
