This morning I was standing in my kitchen looking at some tiny vegetable seedlings I had planted a couple weeks ago. The other day the weather was beautiful, so I thought I would put the seedlings outside to get some sun. I got so busy that day and had forgotten to bring them in that night. Unfortunately the weather dropped down and we got snow in the mountains around our valley. That morning I looked outside and remembered that I had put them out there. When I brought them inside I noticed the leaves were now withered. I ran some mild water on the roots, then put them by one of my kitchen windows.
Today, I noticed that while the leaves were still a little withered and beaten, there was new growth coming up from the core. I have really fallen in love with gardening, there are so many lessons to be learned from it.
Here was this tiny plant that had been beaten by the weather, that had appeared to be dead, but had new life growing out from it.
How many times in our lives do we get beaten by weather (storms, the trials of life) and count things dead in our lives. Maybe you are waiting for something to happen and it has not only been months, but years! Do you count that thing dead? I believe just as my tiny plants had new growth, God wants to bring new growth (life, faith, joy, etc..) into our lives. Do not count something dead because life (dreams, progress, etc) has not yet came. Growth can spring forward fast at any moment. Continue to grow in faith and see those things you counted as dead, begin to come to life.
Matthew 17:20 "For assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed. you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."
Have faith!
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