Far better to be known to God and forgotten by people than to be famous with men and unheard of in Heaven. Choose your friends carefully because only one sticks closer than a brother.
Faith
The Space Between the Flowers
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Genesis 2:8 KJV
“What are you doing?!” I shouted at my friend who had weeding in the perennial garden along the back wall.
“Look I pulled all the weeds out!” he said. I shook my head in amazement at the six feet of flower bed that now lay completely devoid of growth of any kind.
“But you pulled everything else out too. Where are the flowers?” I asked in confusion.
“I’m sorry there were so many weeds that I couldn’t tell which ones were the flowers.” He said sorrowfully.
My fault had been in allowing the weeds to get so thick that it had become impossible to pull them out. I had forgotten that a garden grows best when there is a space around the flowers.
Maybe that is why we sometimes feel alone and God seems silent. He has not forgotten us, but in the garden that is our soul He has chosen to make some space between the flowers. He pulls out and separates things from our lives so that we will bloom our brightest and most brilliant colors when the season is just right.
Top Secret!
I love watching spy shows especially when they penetrate the most secure locations to rescue a friend. They usually learn the location of where the bad guys have hidden their buddy by picking up on top secret information.
But the good news today is that we don’t need a top security clearance to get access to God. God has put everything we need to know in plain sight in His word. Faith alone in Christ alone can open the door to His most secret place for even the smallest child.
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