"The Scent of Water"

Job 14 is a sorrowful lament with memorable lines like, "Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble." There is a little internal story comparing the death of a tree to the death of a man. Job is very hopeful for the tree but not so hopeful for the man. The tree is cut down and is dead! BUT "At the scent of water"...just the scent...the tree begins to live again. For man--for Job who laments the loss of hope, the loss of life--it is not so. Man dies--he's is buried...but wait, here is the hope: there is a time of "change" coming. This is not the promised political change; this is not change that anyone with feet of clay can bring about. It is the change that will occur on "THAT" day, the day of the LORD when we will be changed: we will be like Him!
At the scent of the Living Water, at the sound of the Shofar; at the sight of His glorious appearing, we will be changed! (See Job 14:14)
This journey that we are on is all about preparation for our coming change, for the "day of the Lord when we shall see Him and we shall be like Him." These days I am praying for His swift return. Maranatha!