#treestumped

Why am I up at 4:20 in the morning? My body is screaming, “I’m exhausted!” nevertheless I’m awake. Do I pray? Do I turn on Grey’s Anatomy? What about scrolling through social media? My mind is racing a hundred miles a minutes. Going over the decisions, I’ve made and the consequences that might follow. “Have I gone too far?” or “Is it too late?”. All in Safari’s search engine asking the craziest questions, trying to prepare for the worst. This sounds ALL too familiar right? We all get those 4 AM moments. Some most than none. In those moments, we beat ourselves over the head with the same question, “What could I have done differently?”. The hard answer is nothing, what is done is already done, so we have face what comes with it. With that hard answer, our faith and hope begins to subdue, because we have somehow conjured the false reality that failure is the ONLY choice left. Listen, failure was NEVER an option to begin with baby. That’s not what Abba intended for us. He has plans for us to prosper. Yes, we get a little big headed and get in our own way. Yes, we fall out of will of God and have to face the consequences, but God always willing to make a fair trade with. He trades beauty for ashes, joy for mourns, heaviness for praise. Don’t lose your hope dwelling on “what you could have done better”. Job 14:7-9 NKJV says, “For there is hope for a tree. If it is cut down that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. Though it’s root may grow old in the earth and its stump may die in the ground, YET at the scent of water, it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.” Whether we were “cut down” or stumped by our selfish ambitions or by our maker, there is always hope. Our Father’s capability to send just the “scent of water” provides us with an opportunity to produce from what we thought was already “dead”.