Scriptures of Encouragement ~ The Secret Things

A stiff breeze kicked up as Blue and I walked beneath the canopy of pine. The day was adorned with a Carolina blue sky peppered with puffs of clouds. Gone were the ominous clouds of the winter storm that dumped twelve inches of snow across our mountain landscape.

Gone was the heaviness that had plagued me for months.

Pine needles crunched beneath my feet, emitting the evergreen scent of winter. In the shade of the pine canopy I heard music. Not music like you would expect, but music that turned my thoughts toward the Lord. 

Pine branches were rubbing against each other in the wind, releasing the sound of violins. It wasn't classical, as in an orchestra, yet the sound was undeniably like that of a violin. The sound rose and fell into different crescendos as the evergreen boughs buckled and swayed in the wind. The more the branches surrendered to the power of the wind, the more beautiful their song.

Is it in our surrendering to the power of the Holy Spirit that our lives become one of praise? Can it be that true praise occurs from the rubs in life - the difficulties, the struggles, the unexpected stiff winds that blow?

"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, 

but those things which are revealed 

belong to us and to our children forever..." 

~ Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things. The mysteries of God.

For His ways are not our ways and His thoughts not our thoughts. In our difficulties we are drawn to the mercy and love of the Lord. In our difficulties, He is drawn to us. And that is where we learn the deep meaning of praise - praise that lifts us into His mighty and endearing Presence.

Like the music of the bending pines, I pray that my life will bend into sweet surrender as the breath of God blows over me. I pray that in the bending, the world will hear the melody of His love.

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Pine needles crunched beneath my feet, emitting the evergreen scent of winter. (Click to Tweet)

Can it be that true praise occurs from the rubs in life - the unexpected stiff winds that blow? (Click to Tweet)

In our difficulties, He is drawn to us. (Click to Tweet)



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