This is my #testimony (Psalm 78:6-8). Inspite of this global season I can say I am grateful and contented. Grateful my name is in the Lamb's book of life, for God's presence, and for the many answers given. Contented in my inheritance in Christ, and for God's lavish generosity allowing sharing with others.
Each who has made Christ Lord is like a cactus growing in desert places. Only God causes things to grow in desert places. As a cactus we thrive, spread and abound in this season. Why? Because united with Christ we were made for desert places. The toxicity of the soil, extreme daytime heat, nighttime frost, and limited annual rainfall all work together for good, causing us to launch forward into new dimensions.
Many desert plants have salt pumps in God's manifold wisdom to pump out excess toxic salts allowing the toxicity to stay outside. The leaves as spines reduce water loss, water as a matrix in the flesh resists freezing and drought. To become a cactus submit to 2 Peter 1:1-13.