Supersizing my faith

Our yard is at times overrun with creeping charlie, a small-leafed green plant with LONG runners that can take over everything if left unchecked.  While it can be a nuisance, it does have pretty purple flowers and a pleasant scent, and doesn't get overly tall if we haven't mowed for a while.  Normally the leaves are about the size of a dime, like the ones at the bottom of the picture. 

The other day when I took some scraps out to the compost pile, though, I had to look twice at the runners growing across the pile.  The leaves on that creeping charlie were gargantuan!  Huge!  Larger than life!  I'd never seen a creeping charlie leaf that big before, and could hardly believe my eyes.  But something in that compost pile was providing a super dose of nutrients to this plant, and it was producing supersized leaves.

I couldn't help but think how my faith is a lot like those leaves.  Most times it keeps growing by sending out runners, covering a bit more ground, but remaining small.  No wonder, since it often is neglected and lacking sufficient living water.  But like creeping charlie, it takes a lot to kill it, so it doesn't die off completely. 

This year, though, God is taking that small faith and is supersizing it.  There are days when I can hardly soak in enough, the thirst is so great for His word, that living water.  The leaves of my faith are growing ever larger as they are nourished by hearing how God has been faithful in the lives of others that He has called.  Instead of broadening in many directions,  my faith is starting to send down deeper roots as  I read and write and process, some days barely able to scrawl down notes fast enough as the connections come together.  A verse given early on begins appearing again ~ here, from a friend, and over here, in a memoir, and then again in a study on fasting.  There's barely time to wonder where God is going with it all before the next source of nourishment comes and I begin drinking it in as if I'd been without water for days.

He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.  Many will see what He has done and be amazed.  They will put their trust in the LORD.  Psalm 40:3