God Makes Ordinary Things Extraordinary

I have been doing a lot of reading about microgreens lately. These tasty little green shoots clipped off from a variety of seed starts deliver a dense amount of nutrition and a vast pallet of flavors. I stumbled upon the most amazing fact about seeds the other day. They contain little or no vitamin A, B, C, D, or E. But 10-14 days after being planted, these slender green shoots emerge brimming with these vitamins that were completely absent merely days previous, and carry 50-60 times what existed in nutrients. If every sprout from a seed isn’t a miracle I don’t know what is!

Seeds are the starting point of all vegetation life, and human life. Very often God’s eternal truths are hidden in nature, and we learn a valuable one in these sprouts….God makes extraordinary things out of nothing. Multiplied exponentially, essentials appear out of nowhere, the God who brings life out of nothing, calls things that are not as though they were. When He lives in us, this is what He does through us.

If He makes this all happen with everything as small and insignificant as scattered seeds, imagine when you know him what He is waiting to see emerge in your life with seeds of truth planted in your heart and the living water flowing through your soul. Oh baby!

Let's Be Known By This...

What can I do? How can I help? What do I have to offer? How can we have the greatest impact? We can become paralyzed in indecision and unknown, but Jesus offers us wisdom in John 14:34-35 that brings practicality and simplicity to move forward.

 John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” 

Often times….
We can be right, but wrong in our rightness.
We can be justified, but act unjust.
We can claim His name, and misrepresent His name.
We can speak truth, but harbor hate and entertain bitterness.

But I think what Jesus intends is this…

 We can be known by the same love Jesus showed.
 Rooted in truth, but wrapped in grace.
 Humble in action, and right in love.
 Fighting for justice, and not for just us.
 Claiming His name, because in it we have found life.
Welcoming in love, and building up in truth.
 Let us, as the Church, be known by this.