Props

I’m not sure you can see this very well, but on the very tip of this little tree is a new shoot pushing out. I was soooo excited to see that today!!! This little tree was under a rock, then half buried by the sprinkler dudes, then stepped all over. Been a rough start for this little thing! Well, now there is part of an old log next to it to help prop it up while it gets its roots under its feet.

God does this for us constantly! His blessings are always there, but it is especially sweet when we see the propping He’s doing and then have another opportunity to give God props for His provision. If we are to be overcomers, then God has to allow some ‘thing’ to overcome and that very thing is what can point others to God and encourage us all in our journeys together!

There’s a lesson we can learn from His creation all around us…gratitude! Birds are singing, bees are buzzing…

Snow-crown the peaks with splendor, scatter rose petals down your paths, All through the wild meadows, rose petals. Set the hills to dancing, Dress the canyon walls with live sheep, a drape of flax across the valleys. Let them shout, and shout, and shout! Oh, oh, let them sing!

Psalm 65:11-13

One way we can enter into His divine will is through our praise of gratitude . It is a place we enter into, we may reside there, step there…dwell in the palatable holiness of His desires. Entering into His will requires action on our part, movement, purposefulness ~ most importantly, a yielded heart.

A few Gratitude thoughts ~

   Gratitude acknowledges His grace. It is what moves our vision outward ~ upward.

   Gratitude contains the first steps of trust. It moves us from self-reliance to God-reliance. Trusting in that whatever the “thing” of the moment is, it has been allowed by Him for Glory’s purpose.

   Gratitude looks for, seeks out God in every detail of life. It is not divisive. The grateful heart knows God’s will and yearns to live there every moment.

   Gratitude infuses every thought, it leaves no vacuum. There is no despair, no worry, no anger, no desire that can withstand a soul clad in gratitude.

   Gratitude lifts the soul to the Throne room of God where He embraces His child with His Love beyond imaginings.

  

 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Colossians 3:16

Trust God….Listen for God…Run to God.