I recently spotted some primroses and forget-me-nots in our garden.
They weren’t in a beautiful, lush, green meadow. They weren’t in a palace garden or an exotic jungle. They were growing up between the cracks in the concrete and wood.
They were blooming right where God had intended them to bloom. Brightening the area where they were planted.
Where God has planted us may be somewhere humble. Maybe you feel ‘stuck at home’ or in what feels like a dead end job. Maybe there sense little for you to do in your neighbourhood and you long to be able to really do something for the Lord.
Friends, we too can bloom right where we’re planted!
Maybe your home, your neighbourhood, your town, (even if it’s not the most romantic place) needs to see the beauty of Christ in you.
It’s being faithful in the small things right now.
‘He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much:’
It’s serving God with what He’s given us, where He’s placed us.
‘As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.’
It’s being content in our current situation.
‘I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.’
And especially it’s abiding in Christ, resting in Him, drawing from His endless supplies of grace so that He might shine through us and His love flow through us.
‘Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.’
This is the place where we truly bloom; in Christ! As long as we’re moment by moment living out experientially, that place we have in Christ, He can shine through us and use us. It doesn’t matter where we are physically if we’re abiding in Christ, He will use us right there.
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Luke 16:10, 1 Peter 4:10, Phil 11, John 15:4