For Beall’s 40th birthday, I travelled with my esposa to the mountains of Colorado for some sweetheart time. We walked, talked, hiked, and enjoyed the beauty of mornings in the mountains. How I praise God for His glorious creation which stands as a witness of his power and godhead (Romans 1).

A cup of tea, the cold morning air, a blanket, and the life-rejuvenating Word of God in the mouth of one’s beloved—bliss!

On Saturday, we began our day with Psalm 119.

“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

Yesterday we awoke to this beautiful sight and were reminded of the Lord’s exhortation to Job:

“For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.” (37:6)

“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?” (38:22)