Make Room For Growth

Beyond the Weeds: A Lenten Journey Series

Growth is a beautiful thing when you reach the destination. Growth is beautiful when the project is finished. It’s beautiful when you see the flower in full bloom.

But people, especially Christians, every now and then forget that growth starts in darkness, in roots. It’s not glamorous but hard, rough, and tough. You are growing in the uncomfortable that spouts into a stem and a leaf. It takes good weather, the sun, water, and a little faith for the plant to grow.

The storms of life can blow the tiny plant every way but loose. The downpour of depression, anxiety, inadequacy, and insecurity just tear that little plant down but the roots are allowing the plant to stand firm.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.-Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”-Jeremiah 17:7-8

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.-Galatians 6:9

I feel like that little plant growing in a new space that is uncomfortable. The outdated beliefs have been the weeds trying to choke me with the lies from the Enemy. There is discomfort of refinement. I’m feeling it in my body and soul. It weighs on my spirit how much the weeds overpower me. It is in refinement where God is in the roots filling me with his presence. It is the provision on the sun, good weather, and water that sustains me. It is His presence in the storm that still keeps me and does not destroy me.

I’m in my “Little Leaf Era.” It’s the discomfort of growth that will yield fruit. Abundance is coming. I’m in the dark but I’m seeing light in different ways. I feel lost but I’m found. There is growth around me. There is growth within coming out.

It will take time. Refinement takes time.

Blissfully,

Bianca