Are You In The Bedliner Of The Truck?

The other day, I was in the front yard, just outside because it was so pretty. I had leaned up against my dad's truck that I have and was just looking around. I happened to look down in the bed of the truck. It has a plastic bed liner in it, some dirt, lots of broken twigs and branches, a couple of old tires, just stuff.

Then suddenly my eyes were drawn to something that I hadn't seen before. There in the bed of this truck, with the pastic liner and all, was some grass growing! Almost instantly the Lord spoke to my heart and said, "See, life can grow anywhere! You can grow in adversity!"

Now, logically, the grass would grow better in the ground. But there was some ground in the bed of that truck! So the grass got some rain, some sunshine, and it began to grow!

If you are determined to stay with, and walk with God, and make it through whatever you may be facing, you can! And not only make it through, but grow in the process! I am fully aware that many things are not comfortable or enjoyable to go through. But the fact remains, we can grow in the bed liner of life!

See, the reason for the ability to grow in any situation, is because the life is in the seed! It isn't in the soil, it's in the seed! Now, I know that the soil has some things that the seed needs, but it is the life in the seed that breaks forth. The seed opens up and begans to take in the things the soil has to offer. But the life is in the seed!

Just the same with our lives. The life is in the seed. The seed of Christ! Our lives are the soil that HIS life is planted in. But the life is in the Seed!

That is why this life in Christ is by grace and not by our works. We don't do works to receive, or get from God. We do the works we do, because we have already received, and gotten, from HIM! Not to get HIS attention, but because we already have HIS attention. Not to get HIS favor, but because we already have HIS favor! Not to get HIM to love us more, but because HE already loves us with all HE has! It is HIS grace! Our growth in Christ is dependant on the seed. The seed is the source of life. Not the soil.

We can grow in any enviroment, because of the determination of life in the seed! We can have peace and even joy when we find ourselves in difficult times, because we know HE is determined to continue HIS work in us. Phillipians 1:6, in The Message says, "There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears." HE is determined to grow in us, and not just give us life, but life more abundantly! (John 10:10)

God knows where you and I are in our lives. HE isn't worried about the things we are facing! We can still grow! The life is in the seed!!

HE isn't worried at all, about us being in the bed liner of the truck!