Destructive beauty
While driving to the church last Friday, I encountered an incredibly beautiful sight. The deciduous trees along the highway were covered with crystalline ice, while the tops of conifers revealed their green. I was beginning to believe that I no longer lived in the White Mountains but had been transported to a new place, the Crystal Mountains.
This incredible beauty was the result of an ice storm earlier in the week that not only delivered such beauty but also several headaches. Thousands of people lost power, and trees and limbs fell, many causing property damage. One of our cars suffered an obliterated rear window from a fallen limb, and a tree came down about 100 yards from the house, hitting a transformer and knocking out power to our entire neighborhood. We had no power or heat for 26 hours.
Transformer vs. Tree…
Tree wins every-time!
I’ve heard multiple times over the course of my Christian walk that the evil one, a.k.a. the devil, is thought to be beautiful and alluring, not hideous. Yet it is just this beauty that makes him so dangerous. He makes the things of the world, such as power, prestige, money, possessions, and beauty, incredibly seductive. We often find ourselves lusting after these things that can be pretty destructive.
Friends, we must always be vigilant in recognizing that beauty can also be very ugly and destructive.
…for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:14
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