Dax and I were driving back from Nampa this morning. The sun was just peaking up over the horizon as we passed a field, neatly plowed and blanketed in frost, like powdered sugar on a bundt cake. I considered the rows -- plowed and ready; frozen and empty -- in the middle of February.
As I was pondering, these words sang out from my worship CD: "He is freedom; He is healing right now." I looked at the frozen field and thought, "Healing right now?"
Sometimes God allows our hearts or our spirits to be broken. Always He wants to use the struggle to His glory and our good. (Romans 8:28)
If it were not for the plowing and churning, the fields could not receive seed and produce a new crop. And yet, even after the breaking, they sit -- waiting for the planting time.
True change rarely happens overnight; Healing is seldom instantaneous. Yet, He is faithful.
Sometimes we are broken only to wait in a frozen field, it seems. But we are not abandoned. He is healing -- right now! And if we wait on Him, the planting season will come. If we leave our hearts tender and open to Him like that furrowed earth, we will receive from Him. Then all the churning and the breaking and the aching and, yes, even the waiting (sometimes especially the waiting) will produce new life in us.
Dance in the waiting fields. He is faithful.
"Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you." Hosea 10:12
