You are more than you imagine!

The other day, I was in a rush trying to get everything at home sorted and ready before we left to go on our summer holiday. One of my jobs was to get the garden looking reasonable! With all the rain we've been having in the UK at the moment, getting outside to do some serious gardening has been somewhat difficult - nevertheless with the holiday looming it had to be done!

So I was outside in the light drizzly rain, sorthing the garden. One of the jobs was to pick and freeze the black currants from our small bush that sits proudly in amongst the roses. I made some great jam last year and want to repeat the exercise again when we get back from holiday. The thing was, I hadn't seen many black currants at all on the bush this year. So I found a rather small plastic container from the kitchen to go and collect the meagre harvest.

As I approached the bush, there were a great many leaves - all green and lush - well, you would expect that with all the rain! But still, I did not see many currants. One or two, but not many. However, as I began to pick them, as I began to dig down deep into the bush, lifting and pushing the leaves aside it was a great surprise to discover that there were literally hundreds of black currants, all ripe and ready for the picking. there were so many in fact that I had to make a couple of jourrneys to and from the kitchen with the bounty as the container I had chosen was far too small and the currants kept spilling over the top!

It is amazing how often God seems to speak to me in the garden. He uses many gardening and agricultural metaphors in the Bible and I find he drops revelations into my spirit while I'm quietly working away in the garden.

On this occassion, I felt God was chuckling away. How small minded and unexpectant I had been. Relying only on what I could see from the outside. There was so much more beneath the surface, beyond what I could see. So much fruit had been borne without my knowledge. I got the sense that God was saying that I was more than I imagine I am! I tend to base my measure of success at living the Christian life on what I see on the outside but seldom dig deeper and push within to find out all the riches of what God is doing on the inside.I am more than I imagine! Indeed, you are more that you imagine too! Ask God to reveal to you all the fruit that is growing quietly away on the inside that you don't know about yet -  as I am.

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