Welcome to my spring 2013 blogpost!
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A new season of new life is springing up around us.
My journal tells me that the previous two months were full of challenges but there's plenty of reasons to praise and thank God. The positives outweigh the negative. You may ask yourself the same question, "Where would we be If it hadn't been for God?"; his love, grace and his mercy. In Psalm 103, David says, "O, my soul bless God, don't forget a single blessing!" (MSG).
We gain spiritual strength from our personal relationship with God. We grow in strength and in confidence from knowing that God can use ordinary people like us to express his love to others. God has put new tasks across our paths because he wants to grow us and move us into a new place. Only God can turn ordinary and insignificant moments into God-moments. Who wants to live an ordinary life when God has so much going for each one of us!
Friendliness opens doors to great conversations. Some of my sweetest and most precious moments have been spent in the presence of a 6 year old girl I met on the bus. During our first conversation, she told me her sad story that her parents were separated. I tried to hold back the tears and asked permission to pray for her. I encouraged her to pray and talk to Jesus when she has worries. A few days later she told me that she's been praying everyday but her mother hasn't come back. I was lost for words and was humbled by her childlike faith. Only God can mend a child's broken heart. We pray every time we meet on the same bus. I'm thankful that her father allows our little friendship to grow even for that 20 minutes we are on the bus. I keep praying, trusting God for this precious little girl he has put across my path.
Through us, God can change our environment. Like giving kindness to beggars on the street, through us stopping to reach out to someone who needs help. And here's a challenge for us adults - paying some attention to young people we come across, speaking in love instead of condemning them for their rowdy behaviors. How about we choose to be the peacemakers instead of reacting in anger? We say we should 'mind our own business' and let things be the way they are. But we cannot make changes with just our thinking and no actions. I was very encouraged with a sermon I read about 'The Parable of the Sower' (Matthew 13). Jesus spoke about a farmer scattering his seeds in different places. Jesus didn't specify one type of soil instead he mentioned the footpath, rocky and thorny soil. This parable tells us to sow regardless of what environment we are in. God alone can cause the seed to grow.
Solomon the wisest man that ever lived said, "Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well? (Ecclesiastes 11:6)
Here's my closing thought, God can make a miracle with that ordinary seed in your hand. So go ahead, obey him and sow it!
A word of prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, help us to sow seeds of your authority into our lives and over the enemy. Help us to hear your voice and cause our faith to rise up and sow your spoken word into the needy places in our lives. In Jesus Name, Amen.
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