Live
Grow Thrive
I can still remember the first time I stood over
my newly rototilled garden as a young bride and opened up that first seed packet.
I was certain they had made a mistake because those celery and carrot seeds
were ridiculously tiny!
“Surely
there’s been a mistake,” I exclaimed in amazement, “How can anything so small
grow and become much at all?”
“Then Jesus
said, “What is the Kingdom of God like?
How can I illustrate it? It’ is like a tiny
mustard seed that a man planted in a garden;
it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds
make nests in its branches.”
Luke 13:18-19 NLT
I
should have remembered Jesus’ parable about the mustard seed. But the point of
His story was not about how to grow a mustard plant. Rather it’s all about our
faith in God. Though our faith may feel too small to account for much with God
it is guaranteed to sprout up, grow up strong and reach higher than we can ever
imagine.
Just
like any garden there too is a weed that will come into the garden of our heart
if we don’t watch out. It’s capable smothering our little seed of faith to
become frail rather stronger every day to thrive and grow.
That
weed is called doubt. But just as I was taught to put down newspapers and mulch
to cover the weeds and smother the weeds, so too we must cover our doubts faithfully
with the Word of God.
For
a seed to grow still requires us to fulfill our responsibility to nourish it,
water it and weed it every day. God can work miracles with our little seeds of
faith to create much more than we can imagine for us to live, grow and thrive
in His Kingdom forever.
“Did you ever see a man sitting in his own orchard with
the trees (which he planted with his own hand) pouring down their ripened fruit
upon him, and he and his children and his grandchildren rejoicing in its
beauty? That is the picture of a man who took the truth and planted it, and now
he is sitting under the boughs that overarch him. His days are happy and his
life is full of joy and usefulness.” Author Unknown
“Live Grow Thrive” by Dee
Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© January 20, 2014
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