Short and sweet thought for the week…
Every gardener knows that you can plant a seed, water it, put fertilizer around it, make sure it has sunlight, pull surrounding weeds, and protect it from animals…but only God can make it grow. It’s truly a miracle. Something miraculous apart from us has to make it grow. We are totally dependent on that something special for any crop we plant.
There’s an old saying: To plant a tree is to believe in tomorrow. This holds true for everything we plant. Jesus compared God’s kingdom to a seed growing. It’s not necessary for us to understand how He will make it grow or when. Our job is simply to plant the seeds for His kingdom. We are responsible for the output. God is responsible for the outcome.
As we live our faith in a transparent and inclusive way, we sow seeds for the kingdom of God everywhere we go. Our actions more than our words are witnesses for the love of God. Some people we may only meet once and never again, but that’s okay. Jesus can nurture their faith from planting to harvest. We just need to plant the seeds.
Jesus put it this way, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how (Mark 4:26-27).”
Man doesn’t know how it grows but God does. We plant the seeds, but God brings forth the growth.
“The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground…” ~Mark 4:26
