Day #24 of Walking with the Father

INTRODUCTION
I believe that God interacts with His people on a daily basis. He desires to do that. Sure, we should see Him when we open our eyes, or dress ourselves, when we arrive at our destinations safely, and greet our family & friends. Yes, these are miracles we take for granted and we SHOULD give thanks to God for them. However, if at the end of the day, we cannot pinpoint a certain moment where there was a Yeshua-experience just for us, we have missed Him. I am going to start a series in which I detail those Yeshua Moments in my life and I hope you do the same. Let’s practice His presence. Let’s consciously choose to see Him in everything, everywhere! Here’s the point–”The more we focus on what He IS doing, the more of that He will do in our lives. If we focus on what He is NOT doing, He will NOT do anything–and it is not that He is Not doing anything, but that is all that you will see.” So let’s practice the presence of our God for the next 30 days and record them so that our spirits can be alive in Him. Let’s help to build one another’s faith and awaken our spiritual pores to the living Presence of our Abba. Come on! Let’s walk with the Father!

Day #24 — “The Promise of Spring”
It’s been great to finally get out from our snowed-in cabins, feel the fever abate, (you know, cabin fever) and drive on slushy, icy streets — just to feel the sunshine and to see all the snow that was dumped on neighborhoods. Upon my return home, I noticed the bushes in front of my house, heavy ladened with snow. I knew the promise of the spring, azaleas — pink, white, and purple — in full bloom. Bushes deep green and full with life. I am no horticulturalist, but seeing those bushes ladened with snow just did not seem healthy. Take a look below!

So I got out of the car and attempted to extricate them from their snow caps. To my surprise, as I tried to lift big chunks, the snow was still powdery, so it crumbled in my hands. Then I used the snow shovel to free them. It wasn’t before long that I was winded but managed to rescue a few of them while the others sadly wore their caps of snow. When I went inside and looked out the back window, I saw my gardenia bush, bent to the ground in its coat of snow and extricating it meant walking through 14 inches, digging it out then digging out myself.
Galatians 6 says something quite relevant to my snow-covered bushes: “Bear one another’s burdens” (2) That’s what I tried to do with the bushes. That’s what we should do with one another. But then there are some burdens that we must bear alone: “For every man shall bear his own burden” (5). Those bushes that could not be extricated now must bear the weight of their own burden until the sun comes out and the temperature rises. And there is still always a promise of spring.

Father, there are times when you will send someone to come along side us to help. Thank you for those times and for those servants. Let those who help not crumble under the weight of helping, but let them be revived in seeing an improvement in the lives of the ones they help. And, Father, in those times when we are to bear our own burden, give us the strength to do it, even when we are bowed under the weight of it — let us remember the promise of sunshine, better temperatures . . . and ultimately the promise of spring. Amen!