blossoming

Someone else from Kirkliston was in to see me today.

There's loads going on out there these days! It's exciting to see and to have that sense of a work of God going on. It's a thrill to be a part of it.

This lady who was in has been involved in one small growing sphere of ministry. Like much in life, the thing had started small. And now she finds that God's been laying this whole burden of a growing work upon her heart. Impressing these things upon her heart with quite some force.

We chatted a bit about it all, and prayed about it too: and sought to see together what the Lord's mind is in regard to the next sort of steps she has to take.

As I say, it's great to see this sort of thing, the way a work of God begins to come to the boil.

At night as well, in a rather different context, there was something fairly similar. A work of God that's beginning to grow and expand.

I was round seeing a couple who've not long since (some eight months back or so) had a baby. I know them a bit since I married them both some years ago. And I got to know her family a bit since prior to their wedding her father had sadly died.

Little seeds, the first little bits of embryonic life, have been there for a while.

But now, with the gift of their own little son and confronted by life in the raw, they're starting to want to take the whole thing further. Explore who this Jesus is a bit and see how his life can be known and enjoyed.

It was great having time to chat with them and to see how the Lord is at work in their lives as well. A quiet, patient working in their lives across the years. Just doing them good, no strings attached.

And then an evening such as this, where it's like the Lord just nudges them a little further on, to take the next important steps and see where that will lead.

So it's been a day which has been topped and tailed with a similar sort of theme. A work of God already begun (in small and barely noticeable ways) now starting to be moved towards a fuller stage of life.

Which made me sense that maybe that's the way he means that I should see things here as well. A work that he's long since begun. Quietly, patiently, without a lot of fuss or noise at all.

But now about to move into another fuller sphere of life and growth. Blossoming into what the Lord has always planned that it should really be.

Exciting: and really quite humbling!