Decided to have an early morning walk since my system had already been up for five hours. Pray, read, reflect — I finished all three, but I couldn’t understand why I was prompted to get up early and roam around the subdivision for almost an hour without any specific message to “bring home” after the walk.
Isn’t it that when you are woken up, there is usually a purpose? In my mind, maybe God just wanted me to burn calories, go home, and get ready for church. Kidding aside, I felt like I was walking around Jericho more than seven times. Maybe He just wanted to spend time with me, like a walk in the park.
So after not having any clear message or direction, I decided to go home. As usual, there were leaves on the pathway. I didn’t mind them at first until I saw a germilina leaf that caught my attention. (Years ago, I wrote a similar note to this one, though it was a different home address—we had moved since then. Here is the link, just in case you are interested in reading it. By the way, we don’t have a germilina tree, but there is one outside the subdivision, and most likely the leaf was just carried into our area.)
Going back to the narration, I remembered that God had spoken to me through germilina leaves before, and I realized that He did have a message at the end of the “walk” after all. Looking at the imperfect germilina leaf, I was reminded of my prayer the night before, when I asked God to fix me… to fix my heart. And right before my very eyes, He was showing me the condition of my heart through the heart-shaped germilina leaf — imperfect, skewed, discolored, partially eaten by insects, and partly dried up.
It is not easy to admit, but that is the condition of my heart (not referring to the physical heart, but I believe you understand what I mean). Looking at the other leaves, I noticed they all differed in size, color, and shape. A few were perfectly heart-shaped, but most were not. I realized that He was also showing me the condition of everyone else’s heart.
You see, we are all transparent before Him, and He knows exactly the condition of our hearts — all our flaws, anger, envy, lust, unforgiveness, pride, malice, doubt, fear, guilt, and shame… everything.
But what truly struck me is the truth that He loves us anyway, and He is more than willing to fix you and me, if and only if we allow Him to.
This is the ultimate truth — the Creator of the universe, the One who placed the stars in their positions, the One who is seated on the throne, loves you. He is not too busy nor too far above that He will not notice you. In fact, He is so mindful of you that He knows the number of strands of hair on your head right now.
He created you, and that is why He alone can fix you. Medicine may heal a headache, but the issues of the heart cannot be solved by simple remedies. He alone can heal your broken heart and your crushed soul. He can mend you and make you whole. Let that sink deep into your soul.
Here is a wonderful song by Chris Tomlin to help you start your day:
https://youtu.be/r4-tGQD6sUA
Have a truly blessed Sunday. XOXO
