Claudette's Blog

Around Saint Patrick’s Day I went to one of the big store chains and finally found my green Shamrock plant. I have looked for one for three years.

I purchased a small pot to transplant the Shamrock in. When I transplanted it, it was healthy with small white flowers everywhere, but after the transplant it was shocked, and the green leaves and flowers withered and died not all died, but most.

I thought about when I was transplanted a few years ago, and how I felt much like that plant, in shock. There were good things that died, but in time I saw new things well up within me. I have seen those good things return, because I now am better rooted by the stretching of what I went through, just like the plant its roots will stretch to fill that small pot, and when it is full, it will again transplant into a bigger pot, until it reaches its capacity, much like us in our faith walk with the Lord.

Isaiah wrote it in scripture this way.

Expand the space of your tent. Stretch out the curtains of your tent, and don't hold back. Lengthen your tent ropes, and drive in the tent pegs. Isaiah 54:2

That is what transplanting does it strengthens you; it stretches you, however, like Isaiah says, don’t hold back expand.  Don’t resist it, just allow the hand of the Lord to take you out of that cramp little pot, and transplant you into your destiny in him.  It will be a shock of course, who likes to be removed from comfort, to be stretched to a bigger capacity especially when all is well living in the little pot of life.

Selah!

Claudette Moss