Planting Seeds
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… Ecclesiastes 3:1, ESV
I am so excited about my garden. I started the gardening season off late this year because of the weather in Sacramento. We received so much rain that I did not think anything would grow. We had also done some traveling so I really did not get started until the first week in June, which is kind of late for summer harvesting!
When I got to the nursery to pick up the seedlings I wanted, the inventory was really low. I spoke with the salesclerk and asked when they would get another shipment of more plants. She said they were not ordering anything else until the fall. While I was so disappointed, I felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to buy some seeds and plant them. Now this was one of those moments when the Holy Spirit starts talking and you try and reason it away. I was thinking it is definitely too late to sow seeds for a summer harvest. But then I thought, “If God says so, what do I have to lose! The soil is prepared and ready,” so I bought seeds and planted them.
God reminded me that my thoughts were just like when He brings an assignment to us and we think we are not qualified to complete it. Be it our age, education, gender, race or whatever we feel insecure about, our first thoughts can be to say no to His prompting. We can think it is too late or the timing is not right for us to move into what He has called us to do when in actuality, it is the perfect time! Now our focus will be totally on God - not thinking we can do it in our own strength. When God prompts us to come work with Him, He makes sure we are uncomfortable. He always chooses something outside of our comfort zone! Yet, He has made everything around us perfect for growing. He is waiting for us to get in agreement with Him, saying no to our flesh yes to Him, so the work can begin.
Once I planted the seeds in my garden, I was so focused on waiting to see if they would sprout that I checked my garden every day, sometime three and four times a day, to see if anything was sprouting. Within a week the sprouts were up! I was so excited! Then God reminded me that just like those seedlings sprouted when planted, when we say yes to Him, no matter what it looks like to us, we are in the process of sprouting - heading straight into full fruit production!
Let’s pray: Father, thank you for always brining us to a challenge. Thank you for always stretching us. Thank you for always making us ready, especially when it looks the complete opposite! We glory in you that you never call us to what we are qualified to do, but you qualify the ones you call! To you be glory and praise in Jesus’ name amen!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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