Lessons from the Dutch Resistance Part Two: Find Beauty in the Dark
“In the beginning, God created…” (Genesis 1:1). And it was good. It was beautiful . As God looked over the stars and sun and moon and trees and flowers and animals and seas He had made, again and again, “He saw that it was good.” Then sin came, and everything changed. There were thorns and pain and sickness and death. Yes, the world is broken and dying. But still there is beauty amid the decay. “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 Creation groans, waiting for the day when Jesus returns and makes all things new. Yet still there are glimpses of beauty. Jesus is still King of Creation. And there is still so much beauty to be found when we look for it. God paints the sky every morning. And every evening, He does it again. And there are the clouds–puffy white ones, gray, wispy ones… God could have created plants only to be useful–to be used for food and medicine and building and production. But instead, He made p...
