Good Wednesday morning! What seeds can we plant today? The season of planting crops and gardens in the world is not far away, but the season of planting in the Kingdom of God is always here and now. The world's planting may be a pale example of our work in planting seeds in God's kingdom, but I am reminded of one thing today - the tremendous variety of planters that God has called to the task. We have Christian rock singers, preachers, missionaries, athletes, clerks, technical workers, sound engineers, CEO's (the number of some of these may be small), pilots, veterinarians, cement truck drivers, mothers, dads, sisters, brothers... we have so many kinds of planters to serve the marvelously complex kingdom of our God. Oh, yeah... and once in a while someone thinks that he or she can write. If you find anyone like that, smack 'em upside the head and tell them to quit looking back!
Once more I am trying to be humorous about a serious subject. We all seem to have an inborn tendency to look back. The Israelites did it in the wilderness; muttering to go back to Egypt, where they had been cruelly mistreated slaves! The colonists did it in the early days of this country; the Continental Congress even drafted and sent a conciliatory letter to King George who proved the mighty providence of our God by refusing to even read it. No matter where we have come from, no matter how far the Lord has brought us, we want to look back to what was with nostalgia and yearning. Jesus told us to look only to Him! We are often taken out into the wilderness, you and I may feel that way even now, so that we will learn to depend only on God. That trust grows in looking ahead to the prize for which we strive in Christ Jesus, not in looking back to the terrible pit that God worked so hard to pull us out of! Thank you Lord for the tremendous effort you put in to bringing us to where we are today.
Bucky
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