One’s apartment faces east. In the near distance, the lake is a dark, steely blue with a low range of almost black hills beyond it. Above, the sky wears a blanket of dark, purplish clouds. Between the two is a narrow strip of pale cream sky.
A child might ask, “What is that light over there?” We know what it is — the sun is coming.
A line from a favorite hymn goes through one’s head — “See how the gleam grows in the east before the dawning day.”
The clouds overhead are breaking up, and the sky lightens to a silver gray, scattered with darker gray fluff. The strip of cream turns peach, then intensifies, and the glow is reflected in a rippling pathway across the lake.
“Lift up your heads ye saints, redemption draweth nigh.”
The clouds are stippled with pink now and one’s heartbeat quickens as another hymn floats through one’s mind — “As a woman counts the days until her absent lord she see; waits and watches, weeps and prays, so dear Lord we do for Thee.”
All of a sudden there is a gleam of purest gold, and within seconds, it seems, a glowing disc rises above the horizon — right on time!
Sometimes events convince us, “this is the time.” When what we are looking for does not happen and life goes on in the same old way, we may wonder, “Is our Lord really coming?” “Is it worth the struggle?” Our doubts seem justified until we realize every morning is a reminder that God keeps His word. God hath appointed a day, and Christ will come, as surely as the sun rises in the east, right on time. “So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Even so, come Lord Jesus.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One