Daily in Your Presence/ PLANTER

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PLANTER

They will be called oaks of righteousness,

a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

Isaiah 61:3

FROM THE FATHER'S HEART
My child, do you sometimes feel like a tiny acorn surrounded by huge oak trees? I hear your sighs. I know how badly you want to grow, yet there are times you may see no progress at all. Trust Me. I am the planter. It takes years to grow a sturdy oak. Don't be impatient. Just because you can't see the branches doesn't mean My power is not at work in you. Your labor is not in vain. In time, you, too, will become an oak that offers shade and blessing to many.

A GRATEFUL RESPONSE
At times I've wished to be a strong, sturdy oak, or maybe a pine whose green branches grace the forest all year. Yet sometimes I feel like I'll always be a twig. You decide what I'll be, according to Your divine plan. I'll bloom, Lord, wherever I'm planted.

SIMPLE TRUTH

He is the planter; we are the seed.

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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything,
but only God, who makes things grow.
(1 Corinthians 3:7)

if you have grown, don't thank yourself or thank others for it, but thank God -
who could have watered you if God had not given water?
who could have fed you if God had not given nutrients?
how could you have been planted of God had not created the seed?

God, and God alone, is worthy of all praise and honor!!!