God Moments

Ok, so check it out, here is my God moment of the day. It would be good if you give me a bit of grace here and don’t roll your eyes at me when you get to the end of this cause these thoughts came to me while I was cleaning the cow pens for spring calving. There really isn’t much to stimulate lofty thoughts when you are cleaning pens with a rake, a pitchfork, a wheelbarrow, and the simple determination to get the job done. Really if you can get a God moment while cleaning a calving pen, you can get one pretty much anywhere, just gotta be watching for it.
So, I know, many of you are thinking, “you got to clean the stalls in the barn? I would love to clean calving pens!” Well I’m gonna tell you, it is not as glamorous as you might have been led to think, altho my dogs seem to love it.
Here I am, all ready to enjoy my morning labor, not really thinking of much, just moving the debris, when I glance into the now clean far corner of the pen I was working on . There in this dark corner was a small green tuft of grass. Not really a tuft, more like 2 scraggly spears of grass. I marveled at it for a minute. I hadn’t even noticed it when I had raked there moments before. It made me wonder at how tenacious this plant was to be growing in such a hostile place, no sunlight, no water, smothered by debris. Still, there was life, and growth. It was then God spoke to my heart, “see, I can bring life into the most difficult places, even places where one might say it would be impossible.” Yes God, thanks for reminding me of that. It was a nice bit of worship time there in the calving pen as I basked in the power and love of God.
As I thought more on it and the wonder of life, I began to think of how this is also true in our spiritual lives, in very difficult and hostile times God gives life and growth, in fact it seems to me my biggest growth spurts happen in difficult times, times that I would see as impossible, hmmm. I have been meditating on the ways God sees things versus the way I see them. My first thoughts are always backwards or upside down to what the Word of God says. You want to be first, then be happy to be last. You want to have plenty, then practice being generous with your things. You want to be honored, then choose to be humble, and treat others better than yourself. All upside down of how I think it should work. Those rough patches, those impossible difficult times we face, perfect places for God to grow some pretty amazing stuff in us. All things I am going to be thinking about a bunch more.

Well there it is, my God moment for today. What was yours?