Promises Kept

“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22 (NIV) It was early September and as the first green tree morphed to yellow, the thought came to me, “Here we go again. Pretty soon the snow’ll be flying!” In Cree we’d say, “Kiiyipa wii mispoon.” No matter how you say it, there’s no getting around the changing seasons! The changing tree color brought to mind the passage in Genesis 8:22 of how the seasons came to be. It came out of God’s promise made to Noah after the worldwide flood was over. Well, that got me thinking about God’s promises. When He gives us a promise, it’s not a half-baked “maybe,” but an absolute certainty! Did you ever stop to think of how the seasons come about? Very simply, they are caused by the “tilt” of our planet that is spinning like a top as it circles the sun. That’s the cold hard science behind our annual seasons and “cold weather coming.” This postdiluvian (after the biblical Flood) promise about the seasons would have involved God putting His hand on our planet and tipping the axis of the earth to create what we now know as seasons. That’s awesome! It’s just so good to know that our Creator keeps His promises! – Kene Jackson   Council Fire is a collaboration with Intertribal Life Ministries and Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The Council Fire Daily Devotional Book Set is available on the Intertribal Life Ministries website. Learn more about Council Fire at councilfire365.org