This morning on my way to church, I passed a concrete embankment that had some flowers growing through one of its cracks. That seemed kind of weird to me. How can a delicate flower break its way through solid concrete?
Sometimes in our lives, we encounter people that we feel are too hard or too uncaring. How in the world can a delicate flower of love and compassion break through their tough exterior?
Better yet, there are some struggles we have that very few people know about. You know what I’m talking about: those fears that keep you from sending that email or making that phone call or taking that test or filling out that job application or applying for that mortgage. Or your desperate desire to be loved that you find yourself settling for any person with warm blood running through their veins. Or that spiritual virus you’ve been suffering under that keeps you from reading your bible or going to church or praying for others or sincerely trying to be a man or woman with God in your eyes. Or that secret weakness that leads you to sleep with people who are not your marriage partner or causes you to continue that rumor that someone just shared with you or takes you down the path to anger and revenge because you are not willing to forgive.
I cannot explain it, but flowers do grow through concrete. That person who appears to be so unapproachable can have his or her heart warmed up. Maybe the Holy Spirit is guiding you to say hello which just might start the process for this person to regain their sense of humanity.
You may feel like you are stuck in the concrete of your fears or unspiritual lusts or seemingly overpowering weaknesses, but God’s flower of spiritual enlightenment can break through your walls of resistance.
So the next time you encounter a concrete barrier whether it is in the form of someone else or it resides in you, believe in the power of God to plant a flower and allow Him to nurture it so that it will grow.
Sometimes in our lives, we encounter people that we feel are too hard or too uncaring. How in the world can a delicate flower of love and compassion break through their tough exterior?
Better yet, there are some struggles we have that very few people know about. You know what I’m talking about: those fears that keep you from sending that email or making that phone call or taking that test or filling out that job application or applying for that mortgage. Or your desperate desire to be loved that you find yourself settling for any person with warm blood running through their veins. Or that spiritual virus you’ve been suffering under that keeps you from reading your bible or going to church or praying for others or sincerely trying to be a man or woman with God in your eyes. Or that secret weakness that leads you to sleep with people who are not your marriage partner or causes you to continue that rumor that someone just shared with you or takes you down the path to anger and revenge because you are not willing to forgive.
I cannot explain it, but flowers do grow through concrete. That person who appears to be so unapproachable can have his or her heart warmed up. Maybe the Holy Spirit is guiding you to say hello which just might start the process for this person to regain their sense of humanity.
You may feel like you are stuck in the concrete of your fears or unspiritual lusts or seemingly overpowering weaknesses, but God’s flower of spiritual enlightenment can break through your walls of resistance.
So the next time you encounter a concrete barrier whether it is in the form of someone else or it resides in you, believe in the power of God to plant a flower and allow Him to nurture it so that it will grow.
1 comment:
When I see the flower planted in between the rock and read the parable it seems so pointless to hold on to the disappointment and the pain and it seems so easy to see a break through with just a simple step...if not today maybe tomorrow I will plant that seed and allow God to nuture it so that I am able to grow past my hard shell....yes tomorrow perhaps.
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