living in a garbage can

These past couple of days have been amazing.....weather-wise, I mean. Very different from last weekend, with all the rain and snow. 70's on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. It has been beautiful. Just stepping outside and taking it all in; you can't help but think about how amazing God is......that He created all of this for us. And in six days.

I was reading a quote the other day by Keith Green. He was a Christian Songwriter, whose life was cut short in a plane crash at the age of 28. In a very short span of life, he made a major impact on what we now call contemporary worship music. He also did a lot evangelism. Karen sent me a page online so I could read some of his quotes, and this was one of them that fit with what I just talked about.

“You know, I look around at the world and I see all the beauty that God made. I see the forest and the trees and all the things. And it says in the Bible that He made them in six days, and I don’t know if they’re a literal six days or not. Scientists would say no; some theologians would say yes; it doesn’t matter to me. But I know that Jesus Christ has been preparing a home for me, and for some of you, for two thousand years. And if this world took six days, and that home took two thousand years, … this is living in a garbage can compared to what’s going up there.”

A "garbage can"?!? How could he call this living in a garbage can? It's beautiful here. Just look around. I know that may be hard to grasp, but if we think about it; deep down inside, we know he is right. To be in the presence of God, in all His glory, and to share that with all of heaven....