“Seeds”

Give me a seed and I will make it grow.  No, I’m not talking about planting a seed in a flower pot or the ground.  I’m talking about a seed of hope, a seed of love, or a seed of joy.  We have all been given seeds from God.  What we choose to do with them is up to us.  But don’t eat your seed!  Life should not always be about me, me, and me.  When God blesses you He can always make it go further than you could ever dream.  It may seem like you barely have enough for yourself, but I have come to realize that the minute I give to someone else, I watch more come back to me.

A seed does not come alive until it dies.  We need to be dead to some of our ways, dead to our thinking at times and even dead to others.  Yes!  If you know for a fact that someone means you no good, don’t answer the call or text.  They will eventually stop calling.  I read somewhere the other day that if you are not losing friends, then you are not growing.  That’s interesting.  I have a new appreciation for the friends that I have lost.

Then there are seeds that we see in others.  We have to be careful how we allow those seeds to be sewn into our lives.  Don’t plant someone else’s opinion of you in your mind.  Don’t operate in your gifts based on the belief system of another.  Why would you make a major decision that you will have to live with the rest of your life, based on what someone else thinks?  That just doesn’t make sense.  Of course, we have to consider others if we are married or in relationships.  I’m not suggesting that you do whatever you want to do regardless of your partners’ ideas. But be careful that you do not lose sight of you in striving to please another.  We all have important seeds to sow and grow.