Tumbleweeds

May 12, 2010 | 1 comment

Christians should be like a tumbleweed.  A tumbleweed starts with a small seed taking root in dry ground.   It grows from the nutrients and moisture available.  Drying out and dying, it breaks free from its roots and tumbles along with the wind, casting its seeds as it rolls. 

We start with a small seed of faith planted by another.  God provides the light and living water.  We die to self and break loose from our worldly bonds, allowing the Holy Spirit to take us where God wills so that we can spread the Good News.  Our words and actions are the seeds God plants, waters and brings to new life.   

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1 Comment to "Tumbleweeds"

Anonymous
May 14, 2010

I love this analogy.

Over the past few months, I have found God reminding me that my purpose while on this earth is bigger than what I'm going to do this weekend, greater than my career goals, and grander than trying to decipher when I'll ever get married.

My primary and most important purpose is spreading the love of Jesus to a world that has no idea what true love is, a world that has never tasted and seen that the Lord is good.

The picture of the tumbleweed, dead, dry from afar but full of live giving seed for the ground it covers is just like the confounded foolish thing God uses to spread His good news...me :)

Lee C