Blooming on the Trash Heap

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Genesis 45:7 says, “ And God sent me before you that you might remain in the earth and that you might be given life by great liberty.”

     I like to grow flowers, or at least I did when I had ground in which to plant them.  One of my favorites was the iris.  We had them in Indiana and the choice of colors seems to unending.  I had a lot of yellow iris plants after thinning them out,  far too many to plant, so one small rhizome was thrown on the trash pile amidst the garbage and lawn cuttings.  It was forgotten and presumed dead.  However, one day several months later I went out to the trash and there on the top of the lawn clippings was the bloom of a yellow irfis.  It had indeed bloomed where it was planted.  It should have died and was expected to do wo, however, the flower had another plan in mind and was beautiful.  I transplanted it to a good spot in my flower bed.

     We all know, perhaps, the story of Joseph and how he was sold into slavery and ended up being a trusted official of Potipher.  As things turned out, Potipher’s wife also had her eye on young Joseph and tried to seduce him.  She kept his coat and of course as the narrative goes on, Joseph ended up in prison for something he didn’t do.  He would not have been noticed had he stayed in the employment of Potipher, but God was working out a plan that involved the nation of Israel.  God revealed enough of Joseph’s dreams to make him noticed by Pharaoh himself.  Long story short, what man had devised to kill Joseph, God used to save the nation of Israel.  Indeed, Joseph bloomed where he was planted.  If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you are in a place where you feel you have been wrongly placed, know this.  God doesn’t make mistakes.  God does not put you whee you think you are on the trash heap of life.  God has placed you there to do a work, in other words, to bloom where you have been planted.  It  may be to do some mighty work, or it may be to introduce one person to the gospel message of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It  was a shoe salesman that introduced Dwight L. Moody to Christ .  It was Philip the evangelist that left a thriving ministry in Samaria to go down to Gaza to meet just one man, the Ethiopian Eunuch, to tell him of Christ.  He preached unto him, Jesus.  I resented being where I am for the first couple of months, but now I can say that God meant it for good as the witness is going out here every chance I get.  It may be for just one soul, or it may be for two, I don’t know, but God knows and all I need to do is to bloom where God has placed me.  Praise God for His working in our lives.  Now, bloom as much as you can.