#SEED. Day 4 of #Lent. Scatter Grow Gather.
There is a cycle in my life that follows this rhythm with each new season.
Scatter. Grow. Gather.
So when I think on a seed, just a tiny speck of matter.
A bit of hope. A potential beginning.
Symbolized by the Word of God, so a truth.
Spoken to us if we’re listening. Ready to be ‘planted’ or acted upon. With faith and obedience, perseverance and care.
God calls us to grow. But the process is strange.
“Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal.” John 12:24
To grow we can’t hold on to life just as it is. Seasons change.
From the Father’s hands we are scattered.
Relocated. Rearranged. Re-positioned.
Taken from one season and dispersed into another.
Called forward.
Reminded we can’t go back.
In faith alone, we trust.
We are a seed. DUST. Fragile and frail. A tiny speck of matter.
We PROCLAIM Christ as our priority and trusting Him as THE WAY we are to go we believe in His faithful process.
We die to self. We let go.
Of homes. And children. And expectations.
Of old ways. The familiar. What was comfortable.
Of leadership. Positions. People. And places.
And it is dark and still and feels like death.
There is denial. Then doubt. Dismay and grief.
It is new. All so very new.
And we are so weak here.
Fragile. Frail. Afraid.
A seed. Just a tiny speck of matter. A bit of hope. A potential beginning. Grows. Spirit urges us out. And up.
And as we surface something new begins.
We grow.
And the season cycles. In its highs and lows.
As we bear fruit here.
Gathered into a harvest for His glory.
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