SLOW Growth is GOOD GROWTH!

Today God gave me the biggest revelation yet in quite a long while ever since i entered NS... i decided to spend half my afternoon today reflecting back as well as "trying" to seek God by reading his word, but to be honest, it took me a loooooooong time before i actually got something from God, and that's when God taught me PATIENCE today!

God can't always appear to you in this SUPER NATURAL INSTANTANEOUS way! Like how He did to me a lot of times in the past years, now God taught me a valuable new lesson, and it all started when i found an old slip of paper in a notebook that i use to keep valuable lessons from God, it had some writings of a vision and verses that was written for me at a YM GAP meeting many mths back! I remember chieh ming prayed for me and there was a scribe who took down the prayers.

(The slip of paper said this "VISION of TREE, Psalms 1:1-3, Jeremiah 17:7-8, Picture of a tree roots deep, reach Living Water")

And you know why those writings seem so striking to my heart today,as the devotion that i was reading was TALKING ABOUT THAT EXACT same verses! First there was a statement that said "Slow growth is GOOD GROWTH!... it is the same as the garden of the soul." The scripture verse was this...

¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.2 Peter 3:18 (New International Version)

And the FURTHER READING verses given were PSALMS 1:1-3 and JEREMIAH 17:7-8! THATS what shocked me! Not one verse was similar but TWO!


(the devotion book that i was reading)

Psalm 1

¹ Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.

² But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

³ He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 (New International Version)

⁷ "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.

⁸ He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit."

When i read it, it just gave me a DEEP SENSE of assurance from the LORD that... sometimes i just need to continue to trust in the Lord's plans,i may not get the very "EXPERIENTIAL feeling" from God as often as last time, but i just need to continue to just meditate on his laws and to wait PATIENTLY for Him...just like a tree planted, where you can't rush the growth of it, as the roots need to penetrate slowly but deeply into the ground where the foundation will be stronger as the days come and it will also then reach deep into the LIVING Waters of the Lord!