Five Minute Friday - Relief
12:13 PM
“Continue to work out
your Salvation with fear and trembling
for it is God who
works in you to will and to act
in order to fulfill
His good purpose.”
Philippians 2:12-13
Over the last few days, my dear friend Holy Spirit has been
gently pricking my heart and spirit with questions. Questions by nature reveal, truths, hidden
secrets, and answers. Without questions
there are no answers. I admit the last
week has been one of renewing my heart and spirit. I resisted a few of the questions and
hesitated to answer some of them. I
contemplated, pondered, meditated, and prayed and in return asked Him questions
of my own.
Forgiveness. What
does that look like lived out in the flesh of mine. I can say I forgive but beyond the surface, in
the depths of my heart do I forgive to the point of action? Do I or should I take action to restore
broken and severed relationships?
I have put the hard truth in, praying for the hard parts of
my life to be changed. Like a hard
southern field baked in the heat of the sun, hard as clay, this is what I feel
some places of my heart are. These hard
parts, deep parts, are in desperate need for Holy Spirit to come and till the
rocky, hard, stony places. I need Him to
come and break up the hard with the hard truth of His Word.
He in all his goodness came.
He always does. He always meets
me and makes time for me. I love that
about Him. He brought refreshing rain to
soften the areas he has been tirelessly tilling. He watered the soil of my heart with His tenderness
and love. He came and He tended to the
weeds. Weeds grow exponentially fast,
too fast for me to control at times.
Weeds choke out the seeds of His word.
I recently felt the choking of weeds in my life and I asked him to pull
those weeds and tend to my heart. I want
this tilling, pulling, tending of, so that I may bear fruit. Good, sweet, delicious fruit.
I strive and I strain relentlessly working but He is the
Gardner. Can you imagine how RELIEVED I was when He reminded me, You are a branch grafted in and it
is I who keeps you. What a RELIEF. His Word in my
heart this is what bears fruit. He will remove the
pest eating away at the seeds, and the blooming buds. These pests of unforgiveness, anger, resentment,
worry, fear, and doubt. I know He will
be faithful to tend to me, so I reflect the beauty of His hand and His
workings.
What about you do you put the hard truth in so that the hard
places in your life can be soften and changed into soil that bears much fruit?
Are you relieved that He is the Gardner and He will tend to
the weeds?
2 comments
What a relief that He is the one who keeps us...cause we sure can't do it!!
ReplyDeleteI am eternally relieved!
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