A Spring Walk

I share some pictures and videos of God's creation from springtime in my areas of Australia. 

My niece (1 year old) always wants to find the cow and sheep and cannot always see them from the house window...so today, she and I went looking for them. So I took this video of the spring time grass and the pretty surroundings. 

I am reminded of God's promise...especially when many in this world seem to be alarmed and fearful about man destroying the earth with pollution etc etc. It's not going to come to an end until the Lord wills (and of course we shouldn't abuse His creation either). Yet we know also that there is a time of great tribulation coming before the Lord's return. 

Yes there might be times of drought, and fire, and flood, and pestilence...yet God's promise is faithful and true. 

If we are His, we don't need to fear. 

As the Psalmist said,

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." 

(Psalm 37:25)

And our Lord and Saviour also said we need not worry about such things...but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Matthew 6:24-34)

Then on an evening walk later on I heard rustling in the grass...so I went to investigate. And it was an echidna! It's been a few years since I've seen one of them. I'm not sure if he was eating ants or trying to get through the fence. They're definitely interesting creations of God. They are one of few egg-laying mammals...along with the platypus which is also here in Australia.

Here is a better picture I took at home some years ago. 

He's definitely well protected with his armour! Which reminds me of this scripture passage. I hope we all have on our armour for the spiritual battle we are in. 

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;" (Ephesians 6:10-18)

I remembered I had pics I took of an evening walk around my home property last year (which I had taken to remind my interstate sister of the beauty of springtime where she used to lived). So I share a few here... 

I finish with this wonderful psalm. 

Psalm 147

"Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord."

Amen! 

Glory to God!

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