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In The Trees Above Me

Not long ago on a lovely spring day, I went out to my backyard to work. I started in and then noticed something. There was this humming sound coming from over my head. I stopped and listened. It was really loud. It was as though the globe willow trees over my head were alive.

We have more than 100 such trees on our property, all, just beginning to leaf out. I walked through the trees and it was awesome. The trees were humming like electricity was running through them. Something was definitely going on, but what was it? I stared up into those big tall trees. I could see nothing.

It had to be insects of some kind but I could not see them. I kept staring and then I saw something—it looked like a bee flying from one bud to another. If that’s what it was, there had to have been hundreds of them over my head, all working to gather and spread grains of pollen–and I could not see any of it. Day after day this went on. Something wonderful in the Almighty’s world was happening all around me. I could hear it and knew that it was big, but my eyes could not perceive it.

And so it is! In our time God is performing a marvelous work and a wonder in preparing this world for His glorious second coming. The scattered remnants of Jacob’s family are being gathered one at a time. It is a huge and vastly important work requiring the efforts of millions on both sides of the veil and it too is running against the clock. Do we recognize what is happening, and more importantly, are we a part of it?