Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. I woke up to the farm being blanketed with snow and the beauty around me defies words. Snow is clinging to every twig on every tree and plenty is falling to the ground. As I took it all in and gave thanks to the God who made each unique snowflake and calls it to earth at His appointed time, it reminded me of Life. Each one of His Creations is unlike any other, and each one is called into this world at His appointed time too – and just like the snowflakes falling this morning, some will cling to the Tree of Life while others just fall to the ground. What a beautiful reminder to me straight from the Throne of a Mighty God that some of us will desperately cling to the Tree of Life but others will just fall to the ground. Isn’t that the way you see it too?

It can be so easy for us to clump all the people of Faith together as if we’re all the same…but we miss out on the Majesty of His Creation when we do. Each one of us was knit together in our mother’s womb at His appointed time and there’s no such thing as a mistake or bad timing in His eyes. Each one of us has a unique Purpose in this Journey called Life whether we ever get around to fulfilling it or not. Each one of us Knows the One who calls down the snow from Heaven and most of us have been Taught the same Lessons. The biggest difference is that some of us will desperately cling to the Tree of Life while plenty of others are content to fall to the ground where they’ll get mixed in with all the rest and their uniqueness fades away in the shuffle. We all have the One who Commands the snow to fall in common, but that’s not all we have in common. One day each one of us will melt away just like the snowflakes in Virginia, and the chance we had to Cling to the Tree of Life in the time we were Allotted will be over. When that happens we DO get clumped together for all of Eternity. The desperate ones who clung to the Tree of Life on one side and all the others content to fall to the ground on the other. This is the Key to the importance of sharing the Message of Truth with ALL the world…in and out of the church.

There’s a big difference between being determined and being desperate. Some people walk out their Journey of Faith determined to be God experts and they aren’t afraid to let you know it. They believe the more they know the stronger their faith so they study and study and they judge and judge – but most of their passion comes from their head…and not the Heart. These same people always have an excuse for why people sin and suffer and they probably can’t even spell HUMILITY or COMPASSION. Those poor souls don’t realize that they’ve already fallen to the ground like so many others because they’re lost in their determination for knowledge. It doesn’t take knowledge to desperately cling to the Tree of Life, it takes Heart. The kind of Heart that may not have all the answers from the Bible but one that clings to every word anyway. The kind of Heart that knows how helpless and hopeless it is without Him so it clings even more each day. The kind of Heart that overflows with Compassion for all those lost people and for the others that somehow went from clinging to clumping. The kind of Heart that understands the finality of the melting snowflake and it’s Desperate to Share the Truth because of it.

I marvel at the One who Commands the snow to fall that He would send a Reminder to me in the snowflakes this morning. You won’t find me clumped together like an everyday card-carrying Christian and you won’t find me fallen on the ground. You’ll find me celebrating my Uniqueness and embracing my Purpose. You’ll find me desperately clinging to the Tree of Life all the days of my life, and when it comes time for me to melt, I’ll be clumped together with my brothers and sisters in Heaven. The Heart for Christ is a Desperate Heart and that’s the only kind of Heart I want to have. The only determination on my radar is the kind of determination that makes me want to be all that I can be for Him and a determination to Boldly Share the Truth with all the ones who have fallen to the ground.

How about you?

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?” Job 38:22LikeCommentShare