SMELL OF HOPE

Today's reading: Job 13-14

"If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches. Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays, at the scent of water it may bud and sprout again like a new seedling." Job 14:7-9 NLT

Maybe, just maybe, your faith feels like a cut down tree.

Sawed off at the trunk.

Stripped branch by branch and twig by twig.

Divvied out into cords of firewood.

Sawdust lingering where it once stood.

But then you smell it...the scent of hope.

Something happens that stirs your soul.

A circumstance come to be that could ONLY be God-sent.

A glimmer sparkles in the darkness.

And there it is, the sprout of your faith rising up from its grave.

Awaking from hibernation.

Stirring at dawn.

Faith remains, even when cut off at the knees. Faith remains.

And at the scent of hope, it begins to grow again.