Paint Box

Coming back from the mail box today, I glanced around in awe! I was in an emerald world! Everywhere I looked was swathed in green--grass, trees, bushes. Gigantic trees loaded with their heavy weight of drooping new leaves, tall grasses surviving in hard-to-mow places, distant woods in various tones: dark green, yellow green, new green, the old green of cedars.

Not to mention our lawn, mowed smooth a few days past, now a craggy carpet of uneven growth, every blade showing  glistening jewels of recent rains.

The Bible is full of verses about His creation, including us:

"As for man his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. When the wind has passed over it,  it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer. But the loving kindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And his  righteousness to children's children  to those who keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them." Psalm 103:16-18.

Then there are the admonishments of Matthew 6:28-30:
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you than even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?"

Many testimonies are given by those who have had near-death experiences and remember the beauties of Heaven. They say the colors are like nothing on earth, the grass a green they cannot describe. Emeralds are jewels from which we borrow the description  of the color green.  In Revelation 21:19 the King James Bible says, "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald."

I love the color green!