Living Under a Rock!
"Look at this! I can't believe it!" I said.
"What did you find?"
"Determination!" I replied.
You can call it Spring fever, if you must. I call it a
little bit of Heaven.
I spent most of Sunday afternoon outside. I couldn't wait to
clean up the yard and rid my life of winter.
I have never before cleaned and started the pond this early.
But I am happy to say, the water is flowing and the fish are
swimming.
Of course the pond wasn't a part of the original plan for
Sunday. I really just wanted to clear the leaves away from
the flower bed.
"Those daffodils are pushing right through winter's
garbage." I said.
I raked the area carefully, so as to prevent any damage to
the brave little flowers that fought their way toward the
sun.
But it wasn't until I moved a rock that somehow ended up in
the garden, that I was truly inspired.
"This flower grew like a snake in order to find its way to
the light," I said in amazement.
It was true. The rock had landed on a spot where a flower
grew each year. I would figure that there was no way that
flower would make it.
But it did.
When I lifted the rock, I found the flower had grown around
in a zig-zag design until it finally found its way out.
I was so very impressed with this that it held my attention
for several minutes.
"Are you just going to sit there and look at it?" Marianne
asked.
"No, I'm sitting here admiring it, praising it and yes,
pondering a deeper meaning in all this."
"Pondering? Well, I'll let you ponder a while longer."
Here's what I discovered.
That flower could only do one thing. It had to grow. It was
being all that it was designed to be. It was becoming what
it was created to be.
There was no great battle between it and the rock. It didn't
remain under ground because something was blocking its
normal path. It simply responded by finding a way to
complete its predestined journey. It simply completed
itself. It fulfilled all of God's expectations.
Instead of lying there defeated by the rock, it worked
around it.
How then should we respond to such challenges?
How many times, when faced with an obstacle, do we stop,
quit, whine, and blame others?
If God put such will and determination in a flower to
complete its purpose, what powers would He give us?
Have you ever seen a plant growing on a ledge of a building
several stories high? A wisp of a weed grows wherever it is
carried by the wind. The conditions are not perfect, the
landing precarious, but it grows right where it lands and
completes itself.
Everything it was created to be was inside that seed. The
entire plan for its life, the complete and perfect design
was all there within itself.
But here's the best part. In order for it to become complete
it needed to rely on God for everything else.
The wind, the water, the sun and nourishment.
What an incredible thing!
God does not create anything without providing everything
needed to fulfill His plan for it.
So what's the difference between you and a plant?
The plant has no choice. It will be all it was created to
be. It knows nothing else. A daffodil can't be a horse.
But God gave you a gift of choice. Perhaps you have made the
wrong choices.
Like a seed, you have all you were created to be inside you
and He will provide all you need to complete His plan for
you.
If you didn't know that...
you must be "Living under a rock!"
Bob Perks Bob@BobPerks.com
copyright 2004 Bob Perks