Bloom Where YOU Are Planted

Hey Sis, Hey!

Welcome in or welcome back! If this is your first time visiting, I’m so glad you’re here. We’re right in the middle of our Summer Series, which is all about blossoming and flourishing in all things of God.

Before you dive into today’s devotional, I encourage you to check out the last two if you haven’t already as they lay the foundation for where we are now. But just to recap:

In our last devoted time together, we focused on the challenge of enduring, especially in those moments when you can feel it in your sha-na-na that God is about to release something new.

We reflected on how God desires to see us blossom and flourish as His daughters. He doesn’t withhold any good thing from us. But in His perfect wisdom, He knows the exact time and place to bless us with the new.

There are countless reasons why seasons of waiting stretch us and just as many reasons why they feel unbearable at times. But today, I want us to zoom in on just one: the silent thief of joy, comparison.

In this digital age, where everyone (myself included) is using social media to share life updates, milestones, and “wins”—comparison has become one of the quietest but most dangerous thieves of our joy and faith. And this is even more true when we’re in seasons of waiting and enduring.

During these vulnerable and sensitive seasons, if we’re not careful, the enemy will use them as open doors to plant lies in our minds like: “God has forgotten about you.”
But, we know that’s a bold-faced lie because Deuteronomy 31:8 tells us the truth: God will never leave us nor forsake us.

Still, it’s easy to lose sight of that promise when we’re scrolling through our feeds or peeking over the fence at others who seem to be receiving blessing after blessing—a new engagement, a new house, a new position, a baby on the way, launching a business, and other breakthroughs that appear effortless. Suddenly, their grass looks greener, and our hearts grow weary.

But hear this: God doesn’t want us to compare at all. For one, we don’t know the battles behind someone else’s blessings. What looks like constant favor could be the result of silent struggles, intense prayers, and hard-fought obedience behind closed doors.

And beyond that, God doesn’t want you to become so focused on someone else’s harvest that you miss the seeds He’s planted in your soil. When we compare, we risk overlooking the beauty, growth, and purpose in our own season.

Sis, your process matters. Your timing is intentional. God is doing something specific and beautiful in your life. Right now!

The title of this devotion is “Bloom Where YOU Are Planted.” And yes, YOU is in all caps on purpose.

Because YOU belong to God. And God has His hand on YOU.
The same hand that waters the lilies in your sister’s garden is the same hand tending to the soil of your life.

Wildflowers don’t bloom by looking at the roses next to them, they flourish by soaking up the sunlight where they are rooted. In the same way, God is calling you to stay planted in YOUR purpose, YOUR calling, and YOUR season, trusting that His plan for your life will bring forth beauty in its perfect time.

So, I encourage YOU today to take a step back and truly look at the blessings already in front of YOU. What has God already placed in YOUR hands? What has He already called YOU to do with it?

This is a reminder: YOU are deeply loved by God.

He knew YOU before you were even formed in your mother’s womb, and He knows every single strand of hair on YOUR head. That’s how intentional He is about YOU.

God doesn’t want your focus on what’s happening beside you. He wants your eyes fixed on Him above. He has specifically planted YOU exactly where you are, with a beautifully unique mix of traits, quirks, and abilities that no one else carries.

Whatever He has called YOU to do, and whatever blessing He has for YOU? It’s tailor-made.

It will arrive on time, and in His time.

And it will be just for YOU.

Now, go on Sis and bloom where YOU are planted!

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, My God in Heaven,

I come to You today with a heart full of gratitude…thanking You for all You have done, all You are doing, and all You will do in my life. I never want to go a single day without acknowledging Your goodness. I never want to spend more time focusing on what I don’t have than on what I do.

I have You and that alone is more than enough. You are my source, and I know You withhold no good thing from me.

Lord, in the moments when I become weary, please strengthen me. Remind me of the many awesome things You have already done in my life. Help me guard my heart against judgment and comparison. For I know that I am uniquely created and called according to Your perfect plan and purpose.

Teach me to wait on You and to endure with grace, even when I see others receiving their blessings. May I rejoice with them, knowing You have not forgotten me. You are faithful. You will never leave me nor forsake me.

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Scriptures to meditate on this week:

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:13-14)

“To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)