This Morning I was posting for the page and looking out my window at what was once a small tree in my front yard I planted to replace a beautiful larger tree that had been struck by lightning and died.
I had to buy at that time a much smaller tree because they were so expensive to replace it with the size I had as shade from the afternoon sun. This morning the sunshine was glistening on each leave of that tree as the overnight temperatures dropped into the 60’s and the moisture was all over the leaves giving the trees such a sparkle as the morning sun hit them.
Almost like they were lit up with small twinkle lights, it was beautiful. I had not taken the time to see that in 3 years that tree had grown 5 times its size since replanting. It reminded of my growth in Christ over the last few years. We suddenly turn around and we realize just how far we have come in trusting that God will always, always do what is best and right for us. When we once tried to make things happen on our own with little success.
How amazing it is to know that He has us and while we may still worry, as that is just human nature, we really do not have too. Many of us know this yet we do it anyway, I am one of them. I call myself a natural-born worrier. But, that really is not the truth we are not born natural worriers. The truth is that my life from day one had turmoil and dysfunction in it that I became accustomed to the worry, the what if’s, the whys and why nots.
Why things happen to me in my lifetime is beyond me, sometimes we allow it, sometimes it is for us to learn and grow and sometimes it is just the devil trying to keep you bound up in garbage so that you are unhappy, he loves that. Don’t let him win, show him that God is bigger, he has been defeated and you trust God and look away from the evils of all that has taken place within your life. Let the good things flow through you. I seem to always write about the bad and ugly and the good can win. I guess it is because I am such a realist. I’m not special by any means of the word but, I am blessed, so very blessed by God. He has always given me an inner voice all my life even as a child, one that let me know when to run, to tell, to get help, and one to warn me about other people I met along my journey. I did not always listen but, I ALWAYS heard Him. Today, I promise you that I not only hear Him, I listen to Him as well.
Do you listen to that inner voice, that gut instinct that says run? Or perhaps it says stay? Pay close attention, God talks to us in so many ways, even the glistening leaves on a tree as the sunlight hits the morning dew on the leaves can be God ways of allowing you to see something much bigger or hear His message for the day to you..
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105
Have a blessed Thursday,
Love,
Debbie