Blooming

When a person grows up in Jesus, his life starts to bloom.  It gets prettier and prettier.  Jesus is the gardener, and we're His little flowers.  He planted us in the place He wants us to be.

Our life may have been more like a thistle, covered with spines and thorns, but with Jesus the spines and thorns will disappear, and we will begin to bloom like a beautiful garden flower. 

We begin to take on the fragrance of the Lord and the beauty and color a lovely blossom. 

God has given us a great lesson from the flower; growing, blooming, and being quite happy where ever they are planted. 

Have you ever seen a flower complaining about where it was planted?  I haven't.  We shouldn't complain about circumstances in our life, even if they are hard. 

God has a plan.  He has promised to take care of us and to help us bloom in him.

Are you blooming today?

  "All things work together for good for those who love God." 

Growing In Jesus

Okra seeds

Have you ever marveled at how a plant grows?  God has made plants to teach us lessons.  A little seed can grow into a giant tree.  Delicate, little green sprouts can push through a hard soil crust to reach sunlight.  God uses seeds to tell a parable about the kingdom of heaven.

Amazing, early spring seedlings pushing through the crusty, red soil of Arches National Park.  There was only one other green plant around.

Mark 4:30-32 (KJV)

 ^{30 "}And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
 ³¹ It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
 ³² But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."

Do seeds ever give up?

Why should I give up, if seeds don't?  God has a giant plan for all of us, even when we start out small, God wants to use us for big things.

Today when I was in the garden, I felt like giving up.  We had a seemingly never ending row to double dig.  I was the smallest out of all four diggers, and they were expecting me to get it done fast.  Mom told me I should pray, and after I did, I thought of a seed pushing through the soil, and then I decided if a seed could, I could, so I pushed my shovel through the soil.  I did my digging quickly after that.  In a few months we will have delicious potatoes to eat and I'll remember a little digging will give a lot of food.