Bloom Where You’re Planted Even in Adversity

Last Updated on April 2, 2016 by Stacy Averette

She holds birds’ nests, spiders’ webs, and dew drops. She’s been moved, pruned, burned, and picked on. She’s been too hot, too cold, and wind blown. She’s grown up and grown old.

Still she blooms.

Adversity is hard

At times it is difficult to stand tall, much less bloom. Withering and dying seem easier.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39