SEED OF ETERNITY
Perhaps God invented January … and February … and even early March to remind Christians to live for the new earth to come.
After all, when snow follows sun, which follows rain, which follows fog, which follows snow, which follows sun, which follows almost anything but one of the Egyptian plagues … many probably long for the climate of a redeemed earth.
(And yes, I believe we’ll enjoy all kinds of weather on the new earth, and yes, I believe we’ll even mark the passage of time, but time free from decay).
But despite the annual chaos, the observant eye can still catch tokens — beacons — of eternity: the wonder in a child’s eyes, the love in the joined hands of a couple, the smile of a man who sacrificed his treasures, and in the lone evergreen tree that lives on no matter the weather. Praise God for the evergreen.
Verse 1:
When winter-grey skies
Cover brown, barren fields
When the sun hardly shines
And the bitter wind chills
I remember that summer
Will bloom with new life
When I see the ol’ evergreen
Stretch toward the sky
Chorus
Thank God for the evergreen
And the hope that won’t die
Thank God, its mighty Maker
And Sustainer of life
Though it struggles, still it stands
‘Til the summer sun shines
Thank God for the evergreen
And the hope that won’t die
Verse 2
Well, I’ve walked through many winters
That would wither the soul
But because my Savior lives and loves
I’ll stand faithful and bold.
I’ll obey, praise and pray
And bless God most high
Like the ol’ evergreen filled with abundant life
Chorus
Thank God for the evergreen
And the hope that can’t die
Thank God, its mighty maker
And sustainer of life
Though it struggles, still it stands
‘Til the summer sun shines
Thank God for the evergreen
And the hope that can’t die
Verse 3
When I see the dark shadow
Of the valley of death
And I face this last trial,
Draw my last mortal breath
I’ll arise, glorified
Like a tree from a seed
Sown in faith, for His glory
as God’s evergreen
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