Today I got my first tattoo! I have always wanted tattoos, even when I was super young. I am not sure if I liked the idea of art forever on my body, or if I associated tattoos with my dad (he has a whole sleeve. its so dope) and loved them because I love him. Either way today was the day I got my own. As you can see it is a bouquet of flowers. Yes, yes basic I know, but the meaning behind them is so special to me, and I wanted to share my reasoning with you guys!
Here is a little poem that I think it communicates my heart behind the tattoo.
"And when He came to me, He brought a bouquet of flowers as a sign of his promise.
That He will not cast me out of His garden, but instead will spring one to life in me.
A place for Him to dwell.
A sanctuary for Him to stay."
This is something I wrote a few months ago based off of some inspiration I got from a verse in Isaiah.
Isaiah 58:11 - The Lord will guide you always: he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well watered garden, a spring whose waters never fail."
This verse is so encouraging especially when you are in a season of drought whether it be spiritually, emotionally, or physically. To know that the creator of all things promises to guide and satisfy your every need is amazing. Even in an environment that should halt your prosperity, when you trust God to guide and water you with his Living water you can live in abundance. So my tattoo represents living in Godly abundance and always remembering that I am to be like a well watered garden.
Another reason for my bouquet tattoo (that represents a garden) is the Garden of Eden. That was where God first placed mankind and called it good. The Garden of Eden, before sin, was when humans were in perfect communion with God. To be able to walk and talk with God through the creation he had just made is a concept I can't wrap my mind around. To be sinless and approach God without the blood of Jesus covering all of my mistakes is simply incomprehensible. I long to have the intimacy with God as Adam and Eve did in the garden.
My final big reason for my tattoo is because Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane the night he was betrayed and arrested. He was so grieved that, in Luke, it says that his sweat were like drops of blood falling to the ground. It was such an intense moment of prayer, yet in it he submitted to God's will. He prayed and asked if it was possible for God to take this cup away from him, but ultimately he said that it is not his will be done but his father's. In that moment, knowing the horrific and humiliating way he was to die, he chose it. HE CHOSE IT. He followed through with God's plan because he loves us endlessly, and he knew it was the only way we would be able to have relationship with him. What a love. What an example of how we should obey God, even when it seems less than desirable. God's mind is higher than ours and we might never understand his plan, but we can trust he would never lead us astray. His will for us and the world is perfect. In fact his perfect will and Jesus's perfect obedience has saved us and given us freedom, love, mercy, joy, forgiveness, and grace beyond measure. I hope that my tattoo would not only remind me of this fact, but give me an opportunity to tell others of how Jesus chose them and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Thank you for reading again, and I hope Isaiah 58:11 encourages you through whatever sun-scorched land you are walking through.
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