Its vines are tangled today – no signs of life
visible from my perspective. But I know
it’s there. Somewhere deep within.
The grape vine sits in my back yard… waiting…
ready to explode with life… a fruitful life.
And it will happen soon.
I know, because it happens over and over again… year
after year. That’s what God created it
for.
And the lesson I see repeated each spring, is
that the vine doesn’t worry in the waiting… hoping against hope that God will remember…
that the Creator will look its way once more… choosing to use it yet again – ugly,
desolate though its appearance may be.
No, it just waits... feeding on the nutrients of the moist soil below.
It doesn’t strive. It doesn’t fret. It doesn’t struggle to produce even one small
grape on its own strength. It simply
waits, trusting in its Creator to stir up life once again within the tangled
branches.
No matter how ugly, useless or desolate your life
may appear to you, know that you are not forgotten. Stop trying to live on your own strength.
Step out of the traffic.
Be still.
The One who created you has not forgotten you and
He can bring a delightful harvest through you no matter how tangled and messy
your life has become.
“Cease striving and know that I am God…”
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