First, I’d like to preface this post with a new style. These “In a jiffy” posts are meant to be thought provoking but short. So read at your own risk. Often these will be a subject from an intense time of learning or revelation I’m having. Please understand I’m using revelation in the dimmest sense of the word. It is something that is revelatory to my heart and mind at this moment. It is not a new revelation beyond or outside of scripture, but rather a deepening of my understanding of what scripture already says. These thoughts are typically in process and involve a lot of questions, and not necessarily a lot of answers. Hope you enjoy.
Today, I am planting. Why? It is certainly not because we are past the last date for frost in my area. We are about a month from it. So why, again? It because today I need some hope. I’m try to sow some hope and beauty in my life. The concept of sowing and reaping is a well established concept in scripture.
In a future, regular post I’ll share more about hope, but for now seeds! Why do we plant in the spring time? Why do some of us take extra time to prepare and plan a flower and/or vegetable garden? Certainly it’s not for today. It’s for the future. My journey right now is heavily seed planting, in my children, in my marriage, in my social group. It is tiring.
So instead of planting in people, I planted flower and vegetable seeds. The vegetable seeds are relatively new seeds. They will be protected in a small shelf greenhouse. However, the flower seeds are old. Since I planted them directly outside a frost could harm the seeds. They may or may not come up, but I planted them anyway. And, hopefully, those that survive the ups and downs of spring temperatures, will bless our summer with some beautiful flowers.
I think this is like the Word of God, which Jesus likened to a seed planted in us in the parable of the sower. While presently the Word of God is tumbling around my heart and searching for a place to grow, I remember a promise from Isaiah. The Word of God never returns to God empty.
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:10 – 11
I’m hoping and trusting in those seeds. The seeds that have been sown in my heart and mind a couple decades ago and over the last many years of study. Today’s journey feels overwhelming and even suffocating at times. But, hopefully, in this post you and I can feel some camaraderie in the struggles and in the day to day trials. We can be encouraged together.
Blessings Friend!
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