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Jun 13
Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest 
Psalm 139:16 
"All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be." 

This devotional is a direct answer to Chambers' June 13 devotional... 

based on Luke 18:22, "...come, follow Me"

A Testimonial Devotional with Scripture Reflection

The Unfolding 

There are moments in life when God lets us look back and finally see what we could not understand when we were living it. The other day, He brought me all the way back to a playground when I was seven years old — a little girl who should not have survived what happened there, yet somehow did.

For years I thought I was forgotten that day.
But now I see the truth:

He saved me then… for today.
Not just to keep me alive,
but to keep unfolding the story He had already written.

"The Lord will keep your life… from this time forth and forevermore." — 

Psalm 121:7–8

God does not reveal our lives all at once.
He unfolds them like the petals of a flower —
slowly, gently, intentionally.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time." — Ecclesiastes 3:11

Some petals open early:
childhood, innocence, the first awareness of Him.

Some open painfully:
wounds, silence, years we don't understand.

Some open late:
healing, calling, the voice we didn't know we had.

And some open only after surrender —
the surrender Chambers speaks of,
the surrender of “my right to myself.”

When I look at my life now —
the devotionals I write,
the tears that come when I read them,
the depth I never knew I carried —
I realize something sacred:

God is still unfolding me.
He is not finished.
He is revealing what He planted long ago.

"He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion…" — Philippians 1:6

The little girl on the playground was not abandoned.
She was preserved.
Protected.
Held for a future she could not imagine.

A future that includes today.
A future that includes this calling.
A future that includes these words.

God is not experimenting with my life.
He is revealing it —
petal by petal,
season by season,
breath by breath.

And every petal He opens is proof that He has been here all along.

Have I come to Him?
Will I come now?

Luke 18:22 — “Come, follow Me.” 

Yes, Lord.
I come.

Breath Prayer

Inhale: Lord, You showed me...

Exhale: You were always there.

Author Note

I write daily devotionals woven with quiet testimony — Scripture, reflection, and prayer shaped by the unfolding story of God’s work in my life. My devotionals grow as I grow — shaped by the way God continues to unfold my life.
~ Quil

If you would like to read the devotional

that holds the story of my playground miracle it is here: God Is Here

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