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The Desert Rose
My son loves plants and flowers. Months ago he planted a desert rose in our yard. For a long time it was nothing to look at. To me it simply looked like a scraggly green vine with leaves, almost like a weed growing along the fence. There was nothing remarkable about it, nothing that suggested what it would one day become.
Then the rains came.
Slowly the vine began to change. What once looked ordinary and overlooked began to stretch and climb. Now it is alive with colour. Beautiful blooms have appeared everywhere. The vine that once looked like a weed now covers the shed and the back wall of the house with flowers.
It reminds me of the promise in Isaiah 35:1–2:
“The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, even with joy and singing.”
Isaiah spoke of a time when God would transform what was barren and desolate. Places that seemed dry, forgotten, and lifeless would suddenly burst into beauty and abundance. Springs would break out in the desert and life would flourish where there had once been only dust.
Isn’t that just like God?
He takes what appears small, unnoticed, and insignificant and calls it into something more. What looks dry and lifeless to human eyes becomes beautiful when touched by His hand. With His care and the rain of His Spirit, barren places begin to bloom.
Sometimes in life we look at situations, seasons, or even parts of our own hearts and think they look like nothing much. Scraggly. Unremarkable. Perhaps even a little like a weed.
But the Father sees something different.
With His love, His patience, and the rain of His Spirit, what once seemed dry begins to come alive. What looked ordinary becomes a display of beauty. What seemed barren becomes a place of abundance.
In the hands of God, the desert can still bloom.
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