Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Who
can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high? He stoops to look down on heaven and on
earth. He lifts the poor from
the dust and the needy from the garbage dump. He sets them among princes, even the
princes of his own people! He
gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord! Psalm 113:5-9
This plant
in front of our home has the loveliest cone-shaped pink blooms. In Fall the blossoms wilt and turn
brown. By winter, the plant disappears
and, in spring, re-emerges from the ground up.
This year it decided to hang around with an attention-getter. In early October, a single late pink bloom
appeared in a sea of wilted brown. It’s
still there now, after two nights of freezing temperatures. Our late-bloomer is an oddball.
In my
thinking God does a lot of that. He
takes the ordinary and makes something quite marvelous. Poor, needy, barren, or right out of the
garbage dump…the least of these, our brethren[1],
are made fit company for princes. Late
blooming oddballs are they; they are quite unexpected and a marvel.
In our yard
there are plants I would have given odds would not last a season…and now
they’re huge, healthy, and beautiful.
Others were very promising, but rotted in place, and are now
firewood. The fact remains it’s useless
to judge what God is doing. Sometimes
the write-offs of life make the kind of comeback that defy
explanation under the sun, because, like a tapestry viewed from the underside,
what’s going-on makes little sense. The
view from Heaven’s throne room is quite different; God, the Master craftsman of
everything is using a late blooming oddball to get the attention of those who
thought the game was over.
For You Today
Perhaps you’re
thinking your game is over, that life has passed-by and skipped-over your plans
and hopes. Maybe you feel a little
wilted and brown. But could it be
there’s a little late-blooming surprise among the wilting masses? The oddball may still sit with the princes
after all. God still does that.
You chew on that as
you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!
[1] Title and Other Images: Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation©
So helpful today, I do feel like a late bloomer in His kingdom. You'll never know how much ripple effect you are stimulating, but thank you for continuing!
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