Questions:
- How is your receptiveness to God's Word?
- What are you doing to nurture and nourish Christ's presence - the Living Word - in your life?
[Art Credit: Four Soils, by James B. Janknegt, http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~janknegt/r0062.html. The artist's web site.]
I'm fascinated by the inherent life dynamic of *change.* A constant second only to Christ (who is the same yesterday, today, and forever; Hebrews 13), we meet change in the newness of each day.
ReplyDeleteWhen confronted by change, even if it is change that will it enrich our lives, our first reaction is often to "dig in" to our because-its-familiar preferred condition. This story suggests that at least 3/4 of the time, digging deeper is not the solution.
How we respond to, and grow from and with change, is a spiritual issue. We have the responsibility to cultivate our lives so that God's Word - Christ's presence as Living Word - can grow within in with it's life-giving, change - transforming power. To meet that responsibility, the Holy Spirit gives us the ability.