A few weeks ago I noticed a tree close to the quad for the first time ever. It's not a very big tree, but it's big enough that it would have been near impossible to move it from a different location to the one that it is now in. I searched through my memories trying to recall seeing that tree before. But I couldn't. The tree is kind of grey and at the time of it's appearance it was growing new leaves, which was very odd since all of the other trees were starting to change colors due to the changing season. I imagine that this tree was brighter than ever before since it had just caught my attention. Over the past few weeks I've been observing this tree in order to get to know it. It was new and somewhat exciting to me. A few days after I noticed it for the first time, the new leaves started turning yellow. And a few days after that it was very windy outside, and I noticed that the half of the tree that was facing the wind was mostly bare while the other half still had it's leaves. Now, almost all of the leaves are gone, but it is still just as beautiful, maybe even more than it was on the first day I saw it.
God has been revealing to me how my relationship to that tree is similar to the relationship I have with him. I don't worship the tree or anything crazy like that. But, when Jesus first appeared to my life, it was the brightest, most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Through the time I have spent with him, things have been bare and ragged, but all the while it has been beautiful. And no matter what season I go through with him, although there will be change, I will still always be in awe of him and what he is doing in my life.
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