Skip to main content

Blooming into a new Creation~

2 Corinthians 5:17

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!




Spring is fast approaching us and I must admit, I am very much ready for it!!
 The new blades of grass are sprouting through the dead brown blades.......
And the dandeions are bursting through the once cold, hard ground.

I am done with the cold dreary days.....
The overcast cloudy ones.....
The damp chilly air that lingers in my bones at the end of the day......
And the darkness that closes in around me early each evening.

I have had times in my life when it just wasn't the season of winter that loomed in around me.....
My season was one of dark,cloudy, stormy days that instilled a chill to the depth of my soul....
A season where I was dying to myself and my selfish ways.....
A season of correction and redemption.

When I surrendered my complete being to Christ I had to die to my fleshy desires....
No more could I do things my way.......
Dying to our flesh is a daily task, for our flesh and spirit ,that is a daily tug-a-war.

To become a new creation, I had to allow the old to die and the new to come forth......
I admit this birthing process has been hard  at times.
There were people, places and things I thought were good for me, but were not.

I had to learn to let go and let God.......
Learn to look to Him completely and not the world.

Compare it to a rose bush......
During the winter months a rose bush is cut back. It's pruning season, getting rid of the old, dead branches.




When we become a new creation in Christ, we too are pruned and cut back by our daddy God. It is in the clipping, pruning and cutting back of the old, the preparation for the new is taking place.

And then when spring turns the corner.......
The new creation blooms........


Lush green leaves.......
Branches that are strong and sturdy.....
And the most beautiful, sweet smelling flowers!!!!

I encourage you, as well as myself......
We may have been going through a "winter" season in  our lives.....
BUT spring is right around the corner folks!!!!

From all our pruning, cutting, and clipping......
We are blooming into the sweetest flowers our daddy God has ever created!!!

The old has gone and the new is here!!!!

Xoxoxo
Stacey






Romans 12:2

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.


Linking with: Shakin' the Foundation

Comments

Post a Comment

Your Sweet Comments Are Loved~

Popular posts from this blog

Her Son.....Our Saviour

This is a post I wrote 4 years ago  (4/8/12) on  "Shakin' the Foundation" blog site. I share it every Easter. I pray it ministers to your hearts.  **************************************************************************** As Easter approaches, I have been thinking alot about Jesus' time here on earth. We have all heard of his birth,his teachings,his signs,wonders and miracles. For the most part, we have been taught his life story from those who had the honor of walking daily with him, from those who witnessed every aspect of his life here. However today I am seeing his life through a mother's eyes....... Mary's eyes.....  As a mom myself, I can feel her joy when she looked into the eyes of her precious son. The miracle that she had been chosen to give birth to. That sweet precious baby boy that sometimes would fall down while playing, the one that cried out to her to pick him up..... Can you imagine looking into those beautiful eyes knowing wh...
15 comments
Read more

Am I Ready Lord ??

I can speak of my past....... I feel safe in my present.......... But I am nervous for my future...... Excited and nervous wrapped into one. Am I ready Lord?? God's word tells us, He did not give us a spirit of fear, but of love and sound mind. So why am I so nervous?  Maybe I am scared of myself..... ~Sheesh~ Scared I will maybe make the same choices again..... ~Yuck~ Scared the "old" me will resurface and the emotional baggage of my past will consume the me of today..... ~Lord No~ Fearful if I truly allow someone in, I will be rejected.... ~tears~ Or the choices I make will be just that, MY choices and not God's will for my life. ~Sweet Jesus~  My door of isolation has opened, I take my first few steps breathing in the new season that is upon me...... It is a sweet excitement..... Very sweet!  But as refreshing as it is, part of me wants to run back to the sheltered place I hav...
15 comments
Read more

A Word from the Lord.....Featuring Tracy Teppler

I love how God uses people and I love it and am humbled by when the Lord sometimes uses me in some small way.  I love when someone is desperate for a touch, a word, from God and... they get it.  I love when one is in church and you see how people have been touched by God. I WANT THAT TOO.. I WANT THAT... for me too.  My husband and I have been going through a very hard thing and its culminating in a court case on the 7th of February, but I have been fearful and alternating between begging the Lord to intervene before then, or begging Him to make it go away!  We have been trying to do all the right things, like reading God's word, trusting Him, speaking His word over the situation... But it is TOUGH to have faith in the face of the enemy's attempts at destruction when you have been standing for so long. And then.... WOW! The morning after a 5 1/2 hour meeting with our lawyers to prepare for the court case, the morning after being emotionally drained ...
13 comments
Read more