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Mornings With Jesus
Mornings With Jesus
Bloom Where You're Planted
Have you ever felt the frustrating tension between where you are and where you want to be in your spiritual journey? That restless dissatisfaction might actually be causing you to miss divine encounters happening right in front of you.
"Bloom where you are planted" isn't just a quaint saying—it's a profound spiritual principle that challenges our tendency to always look elsewhere for meaning and fulfillment. While God certainly gives us dreams and ambitions that stretch beyond our current reality, fixating solely on future possibilities often blinds us to His presence in our everyday lives. Jesus might be walking right by us while our heads are either "too high in the clouds, dreaming, or too low to the ground, sulking."
The Christian life reveals a beautiful partnership: our part is simply to show up faithfully where we are, while God's part is to "show out" with His power. Jesus made it abundantly clear that without Him we can do nothing, but with Him, even our current limitations become spaces for supernatural intervention. The waiting periods that feel like setbacks are often divine setups where God is preparing something extraordinary. Before the disciples could reach "the uttermost parts of the earth," they first needed to be witnesses where they already stood—in Jerusalem.
Are you tempted to uproot yourself, hoping things will be better somewhere else? Before making that move, consider whether you might be missing Jesus in the seemingly ordinary moments of your current situation. The abundant life you seek might not require a change of scenery but a change of perspective. Today, choose to be that witness who recognizes Christ's presence right where you are, trusting that as you make His presence known to others, He will faithfully reveal Himself to you.
Hello and welcome to Mornings with Jesus, your daily dose of encouragement. I am your host, joshua Scott Zeitz. If you've ever been around the church for any length of time, perhaps you've heard the old adage bloom where you are planted. Simply put, it means to make use of right where you are, instead of always desiring to be somewhere else. Now, this can apply to many aspects in life, but today I want to encourage you in your spiritual life, your personal walk with Christ.
Speaker 0:Listen, we all have coulda, shoulda, wouldas. We all have God-given desires that seem at times they're never going to come to pass. Sometimes we get grandiose ideas of saving the world, doing something meaningful with our lives, leaving a legacy. These are all well and good, and keep dreaming and hoping as high as you can. After all, we serve a great big God who's able to do exceeding abundantly. Above all, we could ask or think according to the power that works in us, but if we aren't careful, we can miss him in the everyday. He will walk right by us and we will have our heads so high in the clouds, dreaming, or so low to the ground, sulking, that we will miss him. Be encouraged today God can be found all around us. All we have to do is keep our eyes open.
Speaker 0:Jesus told his disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they received power, and then they would be witnesses. He didn't say anything about doing. He said being. That means there's a God part and there's an our part. Our part show up, god's part, show out. That's awesome news, because Jesus made it abundantly clear that without Him we can do nothing. We need Him every hour, every moment. We need Him. We prepare the horse for battle, but victory is of the Lord.
Speaker 0:I want to challenge you and I today. Perhaps you're in a place of waiting right now and the temptation to uproot, to leave and to look elsewhere is strong. Listen, there is a time for that, but if your only reason to leave, to give up, is hoping that it gets better on the other side, you might miss him. He said I will never leave you, I will never forsake you, and oftentimes it's in the everyday, mundane humdrum of life that he shows up. So be ready, bloom where you are planted, be encouraged. Today there's so much Jesus to be had right where you are. Don't keep hoping and wishing to be somewhere else all the time. Don't be that person that always looks for the bad, looks for the trouble around you, looks for the faults. Be that witness who sees Jesus, and then you will be ready to share Him, first in Jerusalem, then in Judea, then in Samaria, and then the uttermost parts of the earth Bloom where you are planted. Remember what you make happen for others, god will make happen for you.
