Monday, March 8, 2010
1:29 PM | 
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7 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? Job 12:7-11
About a month ago I bought two pansy plants. I had a small container that I wanted to put them in for the inside of the house. When I got home I realized that only one would fit so I planted the other one in a "dead" flower box outside. I just barely planted it that is, I scratched a spot out of the pine straw and twigs and just stuck it in...barely deep enough to call it planted.
I put the other one in my container I had gotten them for and left it by the kitchen window so that I would be sure and keep it watered and it would get the necessary sunlight. I wanted to take care of it.
Here you go... the one inside after 1 month... no flowers and PITIFUL looking....
And this is the other one
... after two snows!
blooming and beautiful (if you ignore its surroundings) I didn't do a thing to help it live.... but God did. :-)
... after two snows!
LIFE LESSON: There are several...
When God plants you in a place...THAT'S the place you grow and bloom...The conditions don't even matter if you are where you are suppose to be....But, if YOU choose (or if you don't leave a place when He says leave) ..you might end up looking like the first plant... there is no joy or peace if you are "out there" doing it your way, in a place he didn't lead or told you to leave.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." Prov. 14:12 and Prov. 16:25
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If you depend on people to take care of you they will let you down. Even if they have good intentions, they will either forget to water you, or water you too much or tell you what they think is best for you (I thought it was best for the pansy to be inside, I really did...especially when it snowed!) You can trust God to provide and protect you no matter what the "weather".
"It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man" Ps. 118:8
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I watched the inside plant seeking the sun. It grew taller trying to reach for any light it could get...and the flowers (when they were there) would turn their faces toward the window. I would turn the plant around because it was leaning toward the window...when I did, it wasn't long before they turned around. That plant required sunlight to survive. It was constantly struggling just to survive. It finally got too weak to even try anymore...it is now, just flopped over waiting to die. The outside plant was surrounded by the sun, no struggles...the sunlight was just there.
We are like the pansy...we require the son light and until we find him we struggle to just survive... once we find him and are living in his light, there is no more struggle.
"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." Ps. 23:1,2
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Can you think of anymore?