Birth, growth and death – they’re all over the place.
Things are planted, conceived, sprout, born, grow, reproduce and die. It’s the same with life with God. We get the visible, physical world right in front of us all the time, and as we understand it we’re helped to understand eternal, spiritual things.
In both the physical and spiritual there’s a time of preparation and a time of sowing seed. The farmer can scatter the seed and take in the harvest, but he can’t make the seed sprout or grow. You can plant and water and try to create conditions for growth, but the results are out of your hands. You can pray for your kids, family members and friends, but you can’t make anyone be born again or grow and mature spiritually.
And you can’t just throw seed anywhere and expect it to sprout. If the soil is too hard or rocky or weedy, then there’s no growth or fruit. There needs to be preparation. It’s the same in spiritual things where hard hearts need softening and attitudes made receptive to receive a new thing.
And what you can’t see is important. Roots support everything that grows later. Something big and significant might be happening long before you can see it.
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This is more of The God Show. You can get caught up HERE or at the link on the right under “other writings.” We’re in the nature channel, seeing ways the whole earth is filled with God’s glory.
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