Catch of the Day—God's Habit

The thistle at our back door
photo by Ella

It’s God’s habit
    to give beauty for ashes,
    to exchange emptiness for supply,
    to heap kindness on the ungrateful and the evil.

It’s His determined purpose
    to distill life-giving drink from the sweat of toil,
    to wring unknown comforts from pain,
    to grind bread-meal from the monotony of daily labor.

It’s His plan
    to showcase glory against thick darkness,
    to reveal grace to the humble,
    to weave crowns from thorns.

"So we do not lose heart . . .
    this light momentary affliction is preparing for us
    an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison"
        (II Corinthians 4:16–17).

© July 2011 by Robert G. Robbins