My morning routine now consists of waking, feeding the horses grain and hay, mucking out the corral, then turning the growing manure pile. Doesn't sound real glamorous, but I get plenty of time to talk with God. And turning a manure pile is a great ab workout! Lately, I noticed that my shovel-fulls of manure are smelling more like fresh earth. Fresh, fertile, soil, the kind that grows flowers and food! Got me to thinking: Isn't that what God does? He takes the waste, the rot, the mess, the manure of our lives and He turns it into fertile soil. The kind that grows stuff! Sometimes, the manure is what we make in our own lives,
sometimes, it's stuff other people dump on us, and sometimes it's just the product of life in a fallen world. But in God's economy, it's fertilizer! He heats it up, pours on a little rain, heats it up some more, and voila! fresh, fertile soil from which He grows us and others! What an AWESOME God!!!
I look at the mess of my life and say, "Yuck!" My gracious Father looks at it and says, "I can work with this!" Now that's amazing grace! So the next time I make a mess, or someone dumps on me, and then it piles on and rains and I'll try to remember that it's perfect material for His grace to grow me into the likeness of my Lord and Savior Jesus!
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