Teaching Tuesday / Barrenness Reveals Beauty

I was looking out my bedroom window this evening when I noticed the beautiful colors in the sky. Through most of the year because of the leaves on the trees that block my view, I can't enjoy the sunset from my back door. It was such a neat revelation to realize that the barrenness revealed the beauty.

Now most of us don't like barrenness of any kind.

But looking at the colors change and realizing that if the trees weren't barren in this season then I couldn't have enjoyed this beautiful kaleidoscope that delighted my eyes, my very senses!

Then Holy Spirit turned my thoughts to other types of barrenness that reveals beauty. Anyone that has lost a loved one can attest to the beauty of love being poured out by friends and family to the barrenness of your grieving soul. The barrenness of infertility births a love in one's heart for children that rivals Father's heart for the same. The barrenness of the privilege of getting to worship God freely without Covid restrictions is spurring a beautiful heart in God's people to seek His Face like never before. Awe, the beauty!

As parents, it is in our hearts to protect our children from all barrenness of pain and tribulations of any kind. But is it not through the hurting, barrenness of trials that we learn the beauty of forgiveness, the glory of His restoration and healing? Isn't it true, that the very barrenness in our lives and our children's lives that we try so desperately to avoid is what God uses to build the character traits that we so long to see in our own hearts and in our children's hearts?

I think Apostle Paul, in Romans 8:28, was surely referring even to barrenness when he said that "ALL THINGS" work together for good for those who love Him and those "called to fulfill His designed purposes" (TPT).

Would I ever choose barrenness of any kind? Probably not, but if I embrace it when is comes and look beyond it, as I did when I gazed beyond the bare branches of the tress, I will surely see the beauty that only the barrenness could reveal! Selah! Dear Lord, let me always pause and think on that with the mind of Christ that you've given me!

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