I've been catching up on a lot of things the past couple of days. I have more to go. In my personal life and at work. I was sick last week, so sick I all I could really do is lay in bed, not my usual mode when I'm sick. I usually tough it out or manage to take partial days off and get better. Not this time.
But I digress, my time off left me with a absolute mountain to come back to. But I am slowly completing tasks and crossing them off my lists off things I need to do. Completion, I love it! Completing a list in it's entirety, such bliss for me. It means that some of what is on it will never have do be done again, Yippee! What an awesome feeling.
But as I've been looking over some blogs from dear friends, I found one that she recycled and found new meaning and aptness in it. Then it hit me. I realized that I expect to have revelations from God for my growth, my walk, sins that I need to turn from and sin no more, at least that particular one. Like striking things off a list and never having to revisit them again.
But that is not how God works, at least not in me. I'm like a garden (forgive me, Spring has sprung), in order for plants to grow strong and be fruitful the soil has to have the right nutrients, right? But what if the soil you have to work with is "wrong", too much clay, not enough top soil, just not right for good growing conditions. Well, you have to work it. Use compost or manure, you know, work it to get it to that usable condition. So that when you plant the plant that has already been started, it will take root and use all the good stuff you used to prepare the soil beforehand.
I'm that soil that has some good stuff in it but it's just not ready for the big time, and God just keeps working me so that the plants he plans to to stick in me will take root and grow like crazy! Hugh, juicy, fruit-evident for everyone to see and say, WOW, how did that happen? I can say, it took the Gardner a lot of time and effort, but He is pleased with what grows here.
