Winters in the mid-west, can sometimes be too long for me. The land seems to lie dormant for months. The trees are bare, and the landscape appears dead. But lying just below the surface of the ground, just out of view, nature is at work. And about this time of year, new life begins to emerge. I love taking a walk in a wooded area just as spring is beginning. The leaves from fall still cover the ground and have grown brown and soft from the long winter. But if you look closely, you'll begin to see new tender shoots, little white wild flowers and buds beginning on the trees. It always amazes me that these delicate small new plants, push their way through the mud, muck and mire, and stand tall and strong against the dark and dismal landscape.
I wonder if God is in the middle of doing a new work in you. Do your surroundings seem to be dark and dismal? Has it been awhile since you've heard a fresh Word from Him? Beloved, God is still at work.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 says As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. I particularly like how The Message states it: Just as you'll never understand the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman, So you'll never understand the mystery at work in all that God does.
We may not always understand the work of God. It may be a mystery; just out of view in this season of your life. But Beloved, take heed! He is at work! Remain rooted in Him and you will emerge from the mud, muck and mire, a new creation in Him!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians, 5:17
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