Beautiful

He has made everything beautiful in its time, He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:1

How would you define beautiful?  Chances are if I asked 100 people to show me something beautiful all 100 would show me something different.  Maybe for you it is a sunset over the ocean. Some may say it is the first flowers blooming in Spring.  Others may say it was the birth of their child.  Or maybe it was the first time you saw your spouse.  Maybe you love the sight of snow covered trees.  If you were to stop and look around you I would be willing to guess that wherever you are, you are surrounded by beauty, so much that we forget and take it for granted.

Scripture tells us that God made everything, not just some things, beautiful in its time.  Sometimes it is hard to see the beauty.  When someone is hurt and suffering or when a loved one dies.  When we lose our transportation, our job, our home.  In a world with brokenness and sin it is sometimes too easy to focus on the ugly and lose sight of the beauty.   But we are to fix our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12:2) not the things of this world.  God has promised that everything is made beautiful in its time.  Sometimes we are just too close to the situation to see the bigger picture at other times we won't see the bigger picture until God calls us home, we have to know and believe that God is faithful in keeping His promises therefore we know that even though we cannot see the beauty it will come.