In Process

-Week 1-Day 4

“And He was saying, ‘The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the 

seed sprouts and grows-

how, he himself does not know.  

The soil produces crops by itself; 

first the blade,

then the head,

then the mature grain in the head.” Mark 4:26-29

As a flower grows in all the right conditions, it produces beauty over time: leaves, buds, petals of color. Life is all a process, and He has begun a process in you that He will finish. 

He waters and keeps it watered. 

He shines on it.

A flower cannot make the decision to wither and die in perfect conditions. It is built in its nature, by The Creator, to grow and to fulfill the potential that was once only in seed form. 

You are a ‘planting of the Lord', placed in good soil. And He will finish what He has begun, that He may be glorified (Is. 61:3).  

You will bloom BIG. 

But it’s a process. We are always in process.  

And even the ‘process’ of ‘perfect conditions’ will require uncomfortable times: being ‘buried in soil’, enduring hot sunshine, and ‘drowning’ in water. Certainly each of these can be misunderstood in the moment, but all have a purpose and are all necessary for growth. 

But "..I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” Phil. 1:6

-Allow God to encourage you in the ‘right conditions’ that you are currently in.  What has He ‘started’?

-Ask Him if there are any ‘conditions’ currently in your life that are not ‘right’ and could be stunting your ‘growth’?

Allow God to take an honest inventory.

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; 

Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 

And see if there be any hurtful way in me,

And lead me in the everlasting way. ” Psalm 139:23

Fear can always be a ‘stunting’ factor day to day in our lives and affect our freedom to walk out our calling.   

“The fear of man brings a snare, 

But he who trusts in the Lord will be exalted.” Prov. 29:25

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