Sunsets of Autumn

You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

Psalm 65:8

Morning and Evening is a great devotional by Spurgeon, but the Lord has a better one that all the world observes. These are holy moments none can ignore. People everywhere grow still when those shrill trumpets sprout dazzling banners of red, pink, and orange at the coming and going of the greater orb. If you can’t dig sunrises and sunsets, you can’t be human.

The year also comes in and goes out with a bang: the cheerful colors of spring and the breathtaking finale of fall. So too are our Christian lives. Our conversions scented with the sweet fragrance of flowers and our last days crowned with the brilliance of late leaf both alike announce God’s glory to all.

Like autumn sunsets, the Lord Jesus has saved the best for last. By his death he has sweetened death. Let us then enjoy the spring, summer, and autumn of our days without fear. In this way the church ought to be a forest of mixed seasons—a sky where, here and there, sunrises and sunsets are always singing.