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Scent Of The Flower
By Felix | July 6, 2008
I made it to church this Sunday and service was fantastic, there is always something about the house of God that suppresses all the weight you might be carrying in your heart, I got a few things reloaded into my spirit man again, that made me realize that every circumstance and situation we go through is for a reason, “The Lord disciplines those he loves … for our good, that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
No matter how bad or how hard or how alone you feel, The good Lord is always there watching and waiting for you to call him into that situation.
Earl Nightingale told how on one National Secretaries Day he gave his secretary flowers and she remarked how beautiful they were. She also said that she couldn’t understand why they didn’t have any scent.
He informed her that the flowers came from a hothouse and explained that because flowers raised in this type of environment have everything done for them, they don’t have to attract insects to pollinate them. As a result, they lose their scent. In the same way fruit raised in a hothouse, because it doesn’t need to attract insects to scatter its seeds, doesn’t taste as good as fruit grown in its natural environment.
It’s similar to the child who wanted to help a butterfly out of its cocoon by putting a slit in it and, in so doing caused it to die. He didn’t realize that the struggle to get out of the cocoon is needed to strengthen the butterfly’s wings, which enables it to fly.
When people do too much for us or overprotect us, especially in our early developmental years, they can do serious harm to us. And even in adulthood the problems and difficulties we have are what strengthen us, build out character, and teach us wisdom, understanding, and compassion—if we let them. This is why God disciplines those whom he loves by allowing us to go through difficult times.
Suggested prayer: “Dear God, please help me to yield to your discipline and to see in all the struggles and problems of life that you are wanting me to ‘grow in faith and love and every grace / might more of your salvation know / and seek more earnestly your face.’ Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus’ name, amen.”
Topics: Sunday Series |
July 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
AMEN… very well said..
July 7th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
AMEN!!! Nice post after your las week of not going to church… You are inspiring…My church service last sunday was blissful
July 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Try this and see if it works for you
Picture yourself beside a lake, holding a fishing rod in your hand. Now imagine that the one, specific worry that’s been eating at you lately is attached to that hook. Draw your arm back, then cast your line forward as far as you can. It whirs and flies across the water, and your problem lands way out in the lake.
Now, drop the rod on the beach and walk away.
Felix,That’s the way God wants you to treat your problems as long as you’re clinging to your worries, you’re not trusting God to
take care of you.
Don’t pray to God about your problems and then take them with you at the end of your prayer time.
Leave them with God. He can handle them.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Good you made it to church but I didnt. Permit me to say God would understand. I am joking o. Do not take that comment serious. But i didnt make it to church. God help me