I’m
about to go a little old school and play a little imagination comparison game,
so hang with me it will make sense in the end. I like to picture our relationship with Christ
like this, pretend that Christians are flowers, God is rain and sin and Satan
are the drought. Flowers need water to grow, in order for them to be healthy
and beautiful. The flower goes a day without water and it believes it’s okay,
but without rain the flower slowly begins to wither, whether it’s visible or
not. The effects of the drought start to creep in before the flower even sees
it coming. And before too long the drought starts to consume the flower. The flower is withering away and desperate for
rain!
For
a long time I believed that Christian believers could be at a standstill with Christ,
by standstill I mean not growing in their faith, but not necessarily getting
worse. In my mind I thought people could go through a rough patch, and during
that rough patch they weren’t losing sight of Christ they were just holding on.
But it doesn’t work that way. They were the flower going without rain, and
without Jesus they were slowly opening the door for the drought to creep in. So
in other words you can’t be at a standstill with Christ, because if you aren’t
getting rain your flower will wither. That reminds of the verse from Revelation
3:16 that says,
“So, because you are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold- I am about
to spit you out of my mouth.”
God doesn’t want you to be lukewarm, at a
standstill or a flower going without rain. You have to be on fire for the Lord,
you have to growing in your faith because otherwise we are allowing the drought
to creep in, we are allowing Satan to take ahold of our weakness and pull us
down.
I
was wrong. You cannot be at a standstill with Christ it just simply doesn't work
that way. You can’t be lukewarm, you need to be filled with rain so you flower
can grow in the faith! Filling yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of the
word, communicating with the Lord and totally submerging yourself in the love
of God.
Be
that flower growing in the rain!
xoxoxoxoxoxox Katelynn
(Sorry its been so long! Ive been spending time filling myself with knowledge and wisdom of the word, communicating with the Lord and really EMBRACING His love!)
