The picture of the flowers is from the front steps of Chiltonville Cong'l Church. They seeded themselves from the flower pots on the steps and came up this past Spring. It was amazing to see the flowers come up - working against such incredible odds - the weather, the pavement, the tiny crack between the steps and the ground.
THOUGHT: So much of what we do in ministry is so much "seed-planting". Our task is to plant the seeds (as in the parable of the Sower), but it is God's job to cause those seeds to grow. But it all requires faithfulness on OUR part in the planting of seed.
It's hard... Often we plant seeds and they seem to do nothing - for a long, long time. It's hard to be faithful when we have nothing to show for our efforts. All-the-same --- there is ALWAYS more going on than what we can see. God is working in ways greater than we can imagine or know - working his will and way in the world...
As our new church year begins this month, let's take heart, do our part, and trust God to bring the growth that will result in the fruit that He desires (see John 15:1-8)...
faithfully forward -- ><> Pastor Bill Fillebrown
About Me
- Pastor Bill Fillebrown
- Baby boomer - Plymouth native with deep roots - lived away for a time and have traveled a bit, so I am not "from here" the way I once was...
So true... It reminds me of hearing about the thousands upon thousands of poppies that sprang up from the ground in WWI. Because poppy seeds only sprout in freshly churned earth, often remaining dormant for years, all the shells digging things up in WWI revealed that there were poppy seeds all over the place waiting for their moment to shine. Beauty and life rising up in the midst of ugliness and death.
ReplyDeleteTruly amazing!
~ andy.f