Though my waiting prolongs even greater,
“seasons” by Hillsong Worship
Your promise for me like a seed.
I believe that my season will come.
Today is the one year anniversary of me starting my job as a Youth Ministry Director.
I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on my faith journey, and how I ended up where I am. I’ll save that (really) story for another day. But I’ve been thinking about all the places God needed me in the past, so that I would be prepared for where I am today.
The most important thing I have come to realize, is that when you let God plant you, you know you’ll have everything you need to bloom.
It started on New Year’s Day, 2019. Well, long before that, but let’s just pick that day for now. I ran into one of my high school ministers, and he said that the position I’m currently in had opened. He wanted me to apply. And each day after that, God showed me more and more how this was my path. I started to find comfort in uprooting myself from where God planted me before, because it was perfectly clear that He needed me somewhere new.
When God uproots me, I have to trust that I am being replanted in a place that needs me. I am needed in that garden: planted, rooted, growing, and blooming. And I had faith. I trusted that He provides. Though I sometimes struggle with trusting in His plan, I take root. Not only because He tells me to, but because He planted me Himself: He knows that where I am, I’ll be able to bloom. I’ll be at my best, my healthiest, my happiest, and my most beautiful. He plants me not only to do His will, but to live out the most amazing life, one I could never create on my own. I bloom more beautifully when God plants me.
God is faithful. He provides. His promise for me is, quite literally, a seed: growing in love and faith through a nurturing God’s tender and gentle hands, a master gardener tending to those whom He loves. He waters us, gives us enough light, and plants us in good soil. He does this so gracefully for each one of us. We are His.
Friend, if you find yourself in new soil, take root. Find comfort. Get ready, because God put you there to grow. It won’t always be easy. But trust that your roots are deep enough where a storm passing isn’t going to tear you apart. And you’ll bloom, bigger and brighter and more beautiful than you could have ever imagined, no matter the weather, because you’re rooted in faith and in your Savior. You’re protected in God’s garden.
After you’ve bloomed, you realize the beauty of the garden, and the perfection of the gardener. You (really) realize you’ve been planted by God. Every flower is different; they all have different roots and different needs. And that’s why God’s garden is so big and beautiful: it is full of so many flowers who believed in His promise enough to take root and bloom for Him.
Bloom beautifully, friend.
