PERHAPS

This post was written for Five Minute Friday

Word prompt--PERHAPS

Five minutes to free-write about it

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Over the years, the Lord has used my plants to teach me many things. Perhaps He is about to do so again?

Every summer I put my plants that are on their last legs out on the balcony to give them a last chance to revive or die. Usually they do perk up and thrive, like the spider plant on the left. 

A few, like these cuttings from my jade plant, however, do not. Barring an extraordinary miracle, there does not seem to be any perhaps in its future.

As for the wildflowers and tomato plant, will they have a chance to bloom and bear fruit given how late in the season I planted them this year? Perhaps yes, perhaps no.

Right now it's looking very iffy, as is the peace lily cutting, and the kalanchoe plant that was doing so well on my windowsill, but does not seem to be enjoying being outdoors as much as I thought it would.   

Pondering the uncertainty of these things fills me with gratitude that there is no perhaps with God. He has given us His Word (the Bible) so we need have no doubts.

Romans 3:23 clearly states that we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There is no one on earth who always does what is right and never sins (Ecclesiastes 7:20). We all, like sheep, have strayed and left God's path to follow our own ways (Isaiah 53:6). 

But God does not want anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9). He wants everyone to repent and be saved (1 Timothy 2:4). He longs to be gracious to us (Isaiah 30:18), and loves us so much "that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).  

God did not appoint us to suffer His wrath, but to receive the gift of salvation that Jesus died to appropriate for us (1 Thessalonians 5:9-10). There is no perhaps about it. The choice is ours.