Growing Points

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is."  -Ephesians 4:15-17

Lilias Trotter writes:  "Growing points....You can see them already on the bare boughs, waiting for the spring, and all the year through they are the most precious thing the plant has got....And the growing point of our soul is the thing with which the Spirit of God is specially dealing, and all depends on faithfulness there.  If it is blighted by the chill of disobedience to His voice, He does not immediately begin to work again on some other point, but there is silence--like that long fourteen years silence in Abraham's life after he had gone off the lines of God's dealing in taking Hagar to wife.  In grace God came to him again and took up the broken thread--but they were fourteen wasted years so far as we can see, so far as any fresh revelation of God goes.  And our time left for growing is so short that we cannot afford to waste a day."

I have experienced this silence that Lilias writes of.  It is our own doing--the silence.  God will not shout above the din.  He comes in the stillness when we can hear--when we are willing to listen.

I am grateful that God does not forsake me even when it seems I have forsaken myself.