We All Fade Like a Leaf

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Todd D. Nystrom

Isaiah 64:6-9 –We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. ⁷ There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities. ⁸ But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. ⁹ Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.

A lone maple leaf fades on a park bench in the Flat Fork Ridge Recreation Area. Caesar Creek State Park, Waynesville, Ohio.

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My Rock and My Salvation

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Todd D. Nystrom

Psalms 62:5-8 – For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. ⁷ On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. ⁸ Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.

First view of the Yosemite Valley from the Tunnel View overlook. Yosemite National Park, California.

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The Hills Before You Shall Break Forth Into Singing

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Todd D. Nystrom

Isaiah 55:10-12 – For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, ¹¹ so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. ¹² “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Autumn colors along Auxier Ridge looking out to Courthouse Rock. Red River Gorge, Slade, Kentucky.

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Its Leaf Does Not Wither

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Todd D. Nystrom

Psalm 1:1-3 – Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; ² but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. ³ He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Without Christ in our life we are like these leaves withering in the stream! Caesar Creek Gorge State Nature Preserve, Oregonia, Ohio.