Back in October when I would drive to and from work every day I would pass the splendor of creation that I am sure many of you would see, and I would be awed at the vast beauty and array of colors. The picture above may do some justice, but not enough. I would often wonder what my glorious Father was thinking as He changed the seasons and to my finite mind I never used to put much thought into how it related to my life and the changing of my seasons. Until I started researching what the trees actually go through when Summer is over and Autumn begins.
The changing colors of the leaves brings about a dormant season for the trees on which they grow. A period in which the Father provides a different kind of nourishment. A time to replenish. Their metabolism slows down or their production of Chlorophyll and in some trees this stops all together. Some have to completely lose their leaves so it does not damage the tree beyond repair. While the tree is in this stage it gets plenty of nourishment. The roots provide the water it needs to sustain itself and the tree has stored up nutrients so that it does not die during the winter months. The process is absolutely amazing! I suggest taking a deeper look into their dormancy process, how amazing the Father is to protect all life He alone has created!
The book of Matthew is where Jesus talks about not worrying about what we will wear, eat or drink. Just like trees in their dormancy, they do not have to worry about how they will sustain themselves for the Father already provides. M
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
We also go into dormancy stages throughout our lives. Each of us experiences different seasons of life in which we need various kinds of nourishment. Some seasons require different forms of spiritual growth in which we need to go through in order to develop us for the next season. A “stretching” if you will (of which a beautiful friend so graciously taught me recently). It is in these various season that we go through that we must learn to shed the old so the new can be formed. Many of our season are difficult, they don’t make us feel like we will be sustained and nourished. Instead we feel defeated and depleted. Our dormancy leads to anxiety and depression. Sometimes anger and bitterness which makes it hard for us to see that trusting in a Holy God will lead us out of the valley and onto the mountain top.
The valley’s are not meant to destroy us. They are meant to strengthen us. They are meant to carry us through and stretch us, so that we learn who it is we are to place our trust. Who it is we are to lean on and seek guidance from, not run in the opposite direction from. What it is we are to shed and cleanse from our lives so that when it is time to “grow new leaves” we are made new and whole, not tattered and worn in our new seasons. God wants us whole. He wants the giants in our lives to fall by the waist side, defeated on the battlefield, just like Goliath. If by one stone or by hundreds! Defeated all the same. Not walking around taunting us day by day.
Dormant seasons in life are for change not complacency. They are for renewal, replenishment, rekindling, and a reclaiming of what God intended for us when He became incarnate as the Son Jesus and then died on the Cross for our sins. A perfect, blameless, spotless lamb…shedding His blood in replace of our imperfections and sins. We aren’t meant to carry heavy loads. We are meant to come to Him and take His yoke.
It is time to rise up as sons and daughters of the most High King!
Day 7 – Off The Grid!
There is still plenty of time to join me in the “Off the Grid” Challenge! Never discount what the Father can do in your life when you “Stop Scrolling” and start a relationship or dive deeper in your relationship with Yahweh!
Text OTG to 513-268-0756 Church on Fire (Harrison, Ohio)
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