Learning To Bloom Where You Are Planted
Plants can grow in very strange places. The Lord gave me a ‘teaching moment’ about ten years ago on a trip to the mountains. I was admiring the wonderful scenery, when I heard a word from the Lord. He said, look at the trees growing out of the side of the mountain. I said, that’s a hard place for them to grow, but yet they found a way. Then He said, this is what I want my people to do; “Bloom where they are planted”.
Just imagine, the blades it took to cut through the mountain to make the highways. The trees and plants just grow with ease though that’s the hardest ground. The trees and plants not only grow from the hardest ground, but they point themselves toward the SUN. It’s amazing how God has created them to reach upward to the sun for nourishment. In our lives, we find someone to look up to. That’s how we grow. We look up to the SON of God. He gives us strength in the hardest of places.
The places we are planted in our lifetime sometimes are very hard places. The word says in Is. 43:2 -When you pass through the water, I will be with you, and through the rivers they shall not overflow you when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
We must believe and have confidence in God and His Word, which is Jesus, in order to bloom where we are planted. II Timothy 1:12 says, – For the which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. Romans 4:21 – And being fully persuaded that, what He has promised, He was able also to perform.
God has given us promises in the Word of God to stand on. We must find those promises and put them in our heart so that we won’t forget them in time of trouble.
What’s down in the well, will come up in the bucket! Be a doer of the word (James 1:22; John 3:21).
I believe that God wants us to bloom, because He has a plan for our lives. That’s why we should remember: Hebrews 12:2 – Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Jesus will finish what He has started in us. Never, never, give up!
God values us so much that He calls us salt: Matt. 5:13 – Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thence forth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men. He wants us to bring flavor to the world around us.
God also calls us light: Matt. 5 :14 -Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15- Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. That is our goal; to glorify our Heavenly Father!
If God values us so much He numbers the hair on our head, then as in- Luke 12 :7 says – How much more should we value Him, to honor and obey His Word. This is how to bloom: to honor and obey my Abba Father; to be salt so others will thirst for the Christ in us; and to be a light for the world to see.
Jackie Kelly
