🌸Springtime Sheep🌸
This sheep was the first art piece I made of 2025! It was my way of heralding in the new year! And since I'm starting another new thing this year, namely, this art blog, it seemed fitting to have this art piece be the first one I talk about here!
The "Springtime Sheep"
A while ago, I asked God what season of life He has me in, and He said I'm in a "spring season." He's planting and growing new things in my life right now, especially purity. How God told me this was through showing me a vision of me as a sheep and He placed a flower crown on my head while around us was a white field of snow.
Of course, this was the vision I drew here! I was meditating on the truth of God's character and how He is the one who causes things to grow. That takes the pressure off of me to try and make things grow in my life. It's not in my power to make seeds grow, so why should I stress about it? Growth will happen in God's timing. All I have to do is abide.
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 3:7 NIV
I can trust God to take care of me and grow me in this springtime season as I'm learning to take root in the purity He provides those who follow Him. And right now, He's telling me to "keep going." Keep trusting Him for what He's growing and doing in me, especially in this refining realm of purity.
In all honesty, it has been a struggle to take on and live in the purity that God declares over me. I don't know what exactly it is... It could just be my human nature and the fact that I go back to perverted things and give in to those temptations.... and then the shame associated with falling back to those temptations keeps me from wanting to go forward with claiming who God says I am.
But then I have to remember that sin and shame have no place in my life, especially as a daughter of God, the most powerful being and the high king of Kings.
I have to remember that He has the final say over who I am. Not sin, not shame, but God. He made me and through the blood of Jesus, I am covered.
That means I am clean and pure and sin has no hold or grip on me. I am white as snow. Pure and innocent as a little lamb in springtime.
I can rest and rely on Jesus because my purity isn't through anything I've done, but what He did for me.
This is the truth that God's rooting me into. I am to be so planted in this truth that nothing can move me--not even moments where I feel unclean or shameful. They have no place in my life.
So what season of life are you in right now? What's God growing in you during this spiritual spring season? I can assure you that He is moving in your life right now! It's not a matter of feeling or seeing it--things grow in the unseen first, like the roots of a seed growing underground before the shoots pop up above the soil.
In due time, you'll see the flowers and fruits from this spiritual springtime season of growth. Keep pressing on!
