April Showers Bring May Flowers! Youtube Devo!

I am so excited because we are at the end of April and May is right around the corner. In Iowa that means that we’ve survived our winter and its starting to get warmer, the sun is starting to set later. A popular saying is “April showers bring May flowers." April was a hard month for various reasons, but we've been through the rain and gloom and now we are reading to BLOOM.

Today, I want to encourage you that these weird seasons that we go through where things are really challenging and you may feel like you just can’t get a grip of everything, these seasons are the times when we grow the most. So since I’m going off of April Showers bring May flowers, I kind of want to use an illustration of us as flowers and seasons that we experience in the garden.

The first place I want to point us to is the original garden, the Garden of Eden which God made after the first seven days.

Genesis 2:4 says, "When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

Rain was needed to making things grow. In a garden, rain or water serves as a tool for growth. The rainy seasons that we also find ourselves in are also tools for growth.

Another things that plants need is light. Two essentials for plants. Rain and light. I learned about photosynthesis when I was younger- I remember how important this is for things to grow. Just like plants, we also need light.

In John 8:12, Jesus says, “I am the light of the world.”

When plants get their light, they start to bloom. We are the same way. When you look at a plant, you say the plant is blooming. It is a continuous process. A plant does not just bloom and stop. No, it either blooms and grows, or it blooms and becomes dry and needs rain, and then it needs light to keep growing.

I am reading “Chasing Vines” by Beth Moore and she illustrates this beautifully. She says this… “The reason planting is so crucial to appreciating the process is because it is deliberate.” God has deliberately planted us and he wants to watch us grow. At the snap of God’s finger’s, he could call us home and perfect us… just think of how much easier that would be. But he doesn’t because wants to watch us grow. He will provide rain when we need it, he will make Himself more apparent than ever when we need light.

Isaiah 55:10-11 says, “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.”

The rainy season that we just went through was a season of growth. And I want to encourage you that now you are ready to bloom.

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