Great Advice - Follow the Patterns of Christ

      I have been in constant deliberation in deciding what my first post should be. After all a blog named Fertile Grounds garnered prolific revelation - so I thought or should I say the "flesh" thought. However I must start with a testimony.
      I must first start by saying that this week has been one of the most trying times of my career life and the afore mentioned advice proved to be my solace in this situation and also a canvas for what I see to be used in my marriage. This week I was forced to make a decision in which a line was drawn in the sand amongst my colleagues and I found myself across that line opposite of the people I held dear appointed to a team in which I had no choice in choosing. They chose to defy the powers-that-be and considered me one of those powers, talk about shot in the stomach. So here I am faced with choosing my friends or staying put where I was and fulfilling a position that I had agreed to. Now the advice takes over and I began to process the situation.

       First, I considered that God always gave notice of his intentions never springing choices on believers or non-believers and this situation had no notice, strike one! Second, God never divided people, there were always choices in which position people took and this situation chose sides for individuals and there we were with no choice in the matter, strike two! Third and the most important, righteousness does absolutely nothing in the dark and as you can tell there was no light in this situation, strike three! Now I know that this may not seem that gigantic now but there is a wow moment. Most of the ill will was due to finances in the work place and I personally understand but I understood that there was order in everything we do. Here comes the wow, that day my colleagues decided not to come to work it left just two people working to keep things going. By the end of the day, exhausted I left to finally get something to eat and when I returned there was a different feel at the clinic and to my surprise our office manager went to the mail box and sitting there was the fruits of a grant I had co-authored with a fellow employee and something that caused people to leave their jobs was sitting in the mailbox.

       It goes to support that the devil pushes his hardest at the verge of your break through! Now I think about those people who have to go into the holiday season looking for a job and wonder if had they only stood long enough to identify the patterns they could have been enjoying the hard fought fruits of our labor and realizing the faithfulness of the lord! Not by Sight or Emotion but Understanding - Peace!