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WHISPERS FROM HEAVEN Nancy
Bauer, SW Washington |
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The SECRET of the SEED
It’s SPRING! After last fall’s windstorm, the
“whirly copters” had infested our landscaping. THOUSANDS of them! And in
order for them NOT to grow…producing a forest of baby maple trees in our
large bed of lava rock, I had to pick up each one individually. It took three days to undo what God had
done in planting His seeds. Nature does what God tells it to do, whether we
like it or not! Unlike nature, WE have a choice!
After picking up some 2,000 or so “whirly copters” I figured out their
secret!
SOAKING AND SOIL!
The one’s that had been exposed to LOTS of water and were nestled in
SOIL, THEY were the culprits that had an early start in creating that NOT
WANTED maple forest.
Like the “whirly copters”, to get a
good start in our walk with Jesus, we need a GOOD SOAKING! In order for our hard shells of flesh
to break open with life, they need to be softened by the Holy Spirit! The
Holy Spirit teaches us about Jesus and the Truth of His Word, showing us HOW
to be more like Him…and less like “dirt”. The one thing I noticed about the
“whirly copter” seed was that the thicker the shell, the longer it took for
the SOAKING to work. It just tells us that some of us need more SOAKING than
others. After SOAKING, we break out of the
fleshly shell and start to send out our “root” of new growth. If we find soil, we are on our way to
adding ourselves to the “forest of believers”….BUT if we hit a rock….it’s
harder to send our “root” down to find soil to grow in. God’s WORD is our good soil…..we need
to stick our “root” FIRMLY in the Word of God and dive deeper seeking the
nutrition and minerals that make us grow stronger. And of course the LIGHT/SUN was the
BIG factor in their growing. When we position ourselves in the LIGHT of God
and rely on His sovereignty, we will thrive in the kingdom….here and now! God picks the time, place and
conditions of our lives. He gives us a purpose for growing. He puts us where
we need to be, in HIS time, in HIS place and for HIS purposes. WE choose if
we want to grow….WE have the choice to WANT to grow into what He has chosen
for us to do. LIGHT, SOAKING, SOIL! That’s all it
takes! And once the choice is made to go the “easy’ way…the natural way…GOD’S
WAY…we’ll grow into a beautiful maple tree that will make “whirly copters”
for God to blow in the wind…and start ANOTHER little forest of “whirly
copters”. (Ones that HOPEFULLY I won’t be pulling out!) Simply SOAKING (my fingers included!) Nancy “UMMA” Bauer |
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