Bloom Through It All
- Denise Buckner
- Mar 17
- 3 min read
Hello Friends,
Life will present challenges that sometimes cause us to doubt our faith in God. What I am learning is that life’s interruptions come and go, but our Faith in God must remain. The disappointments, struggles, betrayals, and loss of loved ones are all real, and they will come and go like the seasons. Ecclesiastes 3 discusses the seasons of life. A time to plant and a time to uproot. How many of you have been uprooted from a residence, job, relationship, or have experienced an unwanted diagnosis from your doctor? I have, and I can recall feeling confused, isolated, and in some situations depressed. My faith in God wavered, but my roots were deep in God, and I knew that whatever the situation, with God I would somehow get through it. I may not come out the same, but I trusted deep down in my heart that God would make a way out of no way. God would be the bridge over troubled water, and He would be with me even in the darkest places. That’s what makes our God so special. He promises to keep us and never to leave us. He says that where we are, He is there. He meets us where we are, even in the dark places.
When we find ourselves in these circumstances it is imperative to know that God is still growing us. He has uprooted us to grow us, and as a result, we bloom in places that we considered dry, our desert places, and places where we felt constricted and tight, such as in areas where there is red clay as soil. God makes no mistakes. He will give us fruit that remains when we allow Him to have his perfect work. Removing our lenses for His allows us to see that God’s thoughts are higher than ours. His purpose is to make us more like Christ, refining us and pruning us so that only what matters remains. The season of planting and uprooting is a growing season that will cause us to bloom in Him.
We must fix our eyes on the beauty that God has given us in exchange for our ashes and the oil of joy He is giving us for our mourning. Our growth is inevitable when we surrender and let God form us into the beautiful flowers he designed for us to be from the beginning.
Let’s bloom through it all and produce flowers and fruit that remain,
which gives Him Glory. Bloom through it all. Our growth season is here. Embrace it and let God finish His perfect work through us.
Scriptures
““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.””
Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 NIV
“See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.””
Song of Songs 2:11-13 NIV
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.”
Psalms 139:7-10 NIV
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