Today is
the first day of Spring and as I look out at the pollen floating to the ground
in the form of flowers and blossoms I accept the fact that my allergies will
run wild in the days ahead but then I have chosen to live in a home with a
beautiful garden; it comes with the territory.
Sometimes
in life we have to accept the ‘pollen’ in order to enjoy the garden paradise.
“But you,
God has chosen us, each one of us, just like Israel
And since Abraham and the other patriarchs were holy, their
descendants will also be holy—just as the entire batch of dough is holy because
the portion given as an offering is holy. For if the roots of the tree are
holy, the branches will be, too. But some of these
branches from Abraham’s tree—some of the people of Israel
He
chose us to be His children and walk in His way, and we chose to follow Him.
Together
we work to live the life that God gave us to live in the wisdom and guidance of
His Word. Some days though it seems like the pollen is heavier than the
beautiful flowers; the flowers fade and the pollen is still floating around
irritating our eyes and nose and causing us trouble. Still, we choose to walk in that garden, we
choose to delight in its goodness!
Just
as the choice we made to follow God’s plan for our lives and live a life pleasing
and acceptable to Him may put us in a position of turmoil or trouble for a
moment; we have chosen to put our God in control. This too shall pass, just as
Spring does.
In doing so we have
accepted that the ‘garden walk’ will bring us a bit of pollen from year to year
but that the fruit of its goodness will be a delight!
Another garden issue I
have is the fact that bees are a necessity to keep the flowers blooming and
bring forth the fruit in its time. I am fatally allergic to bees, but I need
them in my garden. The bees take the pollen and transfer it to cause the
blossoms to become fruit.
Now think for a moment
about the things, or people, in your life that you do not want to have to deal
with; they are the bees of your life; they are necessary to the livelihood of
your life in the way the bees are to the garden fruit. The thing to remember
about bees, they are busy on their own path, though it may be through the air
God has a purpose for them just as He does for us.
Even
though we do not see at the moment, or may never actually understand the reason
for things or people to come passing by in our lives and disrupt us a bit to
get the pollen from us to spread on the next garden we need to know that God
placed us in the spot we are in for a reason. Why do we need to know this? For
that matter how do we know that God has put us or allowed us to be in a place
were we may have to suffer; if I get stung I will suffer. We know because we
gave Him the control over our lives when we asked Him to be Lord of our lives.
It is that simple. So if we have to dodge a bee to pick a flower or an orange
off the tree them we can know that it was because God placed that bee in our
path, just as He placed us on that path.
For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Fear not, I
will help you.’ Isaiah
41:8-13
When the Word says that
all things work together for the good, it means all things!
And we
know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who
are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28
So
what if we have to deal with the dangers of this world in order to follow that
path? Now that we have our feet planted in the Garden He has put before us; and
we know this by the choice we made to follow Him when we asked Him to be our
Lord and Savior; we can walk over the rocks without stumbling, we can curve
with the curves in the trail, and leap over the issues that the bees bring to
us without fear. He said “fear not for I am with you”, So lets walk this week
through the Garden of our lives with Him. Let Jesus be our tour guide through
our week, through our life; and let the delights of the garden outweigh the
dangers we pass by. We can do this because we put our trust in Him to direct
our paths, remember? Proverbs 3:5-6 gives us this assurance!
Dear
Heavenly Father, thank you for today, Thank you for the bees in the garden and
the pollen that coats the air at this time of year. Bring us through the garden of Springtime
Read
some more: Isaiah 43:1-28 , Romans 8:1-39, and Romans 11:1-36