It’s Tuesday.
It’s the 20th of April 2010.
It’s a new season.
How to put into words the reality blooming within me?
“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19
I don’t know about anyone else, but this spring feels as though it were a first for me. I had almost forgotten the feel of the sun’s gentle rays and the freshness of a light breeze. However, even with all of that, I sense that the rediscovery of spring has much more to do with what the Lord is awakening within me.
The core of that awakening? The deep realization that God can make roadways in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Nothing is impossible for Him. This knowledge is coupled with the reality that not only can He do this, He will. He has told me some promises, planted them deep within, and now I sense that some of those seeds are beginning to break through to the light of day.
Only God knows the time it will take for those promises to come to full fruition, but I trust that He is the faithful gardner. He will continue to water those hopes and shine upon them. He will protect against the frost of skeptical stares and faithless words.
I do understand that I must continue to work too. I perceive that the Lord is doing a new thing, and, going along with the plant analogy, I choose to turn my face to the Son and say yes. And part of that yes is daring to stretch.
Don Miller recently challenged his blog readers to write down three “what if” statements. Three things that they could do that might cause movement in their story. I can’t say that I know specifically what my three are as a couple things that come to mind immediately must wait for a yes from the Lord. Therefore, my first statement shall be: what if I consistently carved out a time to write daily? What might come out of those moments?
I pray you are experiencing your own season of the Lord breathing on hopes and dreams. May this spring be one that blows the farmers’ almanac out of the water with all the things that take place.
To God be all the glory.
