For my 25th birthday,
My true Love gave to me…
POPPIES!!!
But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
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Y ahora pregunta a las bestias, y que ellas te enseñen, y a las aves de los cielos, y que ellas te informen. O habla a la tierra y que ella te instruya, y que los peces del mar te lo declaren. ¿Quién entre todos ellos no sabe que la mano del SEÑOR ha hecho esto, que en su mano está la vida de todo ser viviente, y el aliento de toda carne de hombre?
Job 12:7-10
“Every woman deserves a flower.”
At least that’s what I’ve always said. To me it represents beauty and worthyness. Anytime the Lord gives me a vision, for someone, that incorporates Flowers. I know he’s expressing that he finds that person beautiful.
About a week ago we left Armenia to come to Georgia. A few days before my birthday.
It was a special day that the Lord spent with me, Him and I enjoying the life he gave me and celebrating.
I sat in the passenger seat of a soccer mom van as we traveled about 7 hours from one country to the other.
I had the window down, hand in the wind, the sun was shining, it was perfect weather, and we were nestled in between mountains through the whole trip. This was already a sweet time, but what topped it was that the Lord gave me flowers. Red poppies are my favorite , and I’ve only ever seen them in little patches by bridges planted by the DOT. But during this ride there were fields full of these poppies that we would drive through in this long ride. I was so excited, and everyone in our little soccer mom van could see it on my face as I would gasp and squeek.
It was the best birthday present I could have received. I knew in that moment that if no one else celebrated me, the Lord did that day and it was so sweet. Lately the things I had been longing for and desiring was to be celebrated, and to have something of my own that belonged to me. I really didn’t serve these things because they were out of envy.
However, the Lord showed me all of that. Flowers just for me, to reassure how he sees me. Beautiful and Worthy. You see my envy had nothing to do with deserving a gift or not. It wasn’t about rewarding me for good behavior, but giving in spite of bad behavior. This is always how the Lord works. There is nothing we can do to deserve his love and affection. But Abba adores his children, Jesus adores his Bride.
Yesterday I turned 25 and I was loved and celebrated by my squad. It was beautiful. But nothing will ever beat what a couple days before my birthday, my true love gave to me.
