It took me over two years to share what I’m about to share with you all. Being the private person I am, I sometimes feel the revelations God gives me are just for me, so I don’t share them with many. Instead, I keep them in my heart and smile every time I think of them, knowing it’s just between me and God. However, God has been using my team mates to show me in keeping things to myself, I’m being selfish. I first spoke about this story to them while hiking through lush jungles of trees and wildflowers on a mountain in Costa Rica. It blessed my team mates then, and I’ve since shared this with my whole squad. They encouraged me to share it in written form, so I pulled this from the documents on my computer, and here it is:
“I was thinking about flowers: those intentionally planted in conspicuous places, and those in the forest or along the road where no one sees or notices. The flowers planted by someone are planted intentionally in places where they give optimal pleasure. Those are the flowers everyone sees and notices. Everybody stops to smell and gently caress those, and often they end up in pretty vases. I’m sure those flowers are happy. The attention they receive causes them to smile and feel secure in their beauty. They revel in the sounds of awed passers-by.
But what about the wildflowers? The ones which grow deep inside the forest where not a single person ever sees them? The ones that bloom, then wither and fade before anyone was even aware of their existence? They spend as much energy and time blooming as all the other flowers, yet no one ever stops to admire them or smell their sweet fragrance. No one is aware of their existence. But, God. God knows they are there. In fact, He’s the one who planted them there, in secluded places. He’s the one they are blooming for. They don’t care if they wither before anyone knows they existed. They are blooming for God. Every day they declare the glory of God. Every day God smiles on them and delights in the praises they sing to Him. They don’t need man’s approval. They are happy precisely where they’re at; they are blooming where they’re planted. The smile of God gives them more security and reward than any earthly fame ever could. I dare to think these wildflowers bloom even a little brighter than the others. And I think just maybe, I’d like to be one of these.”
