{"id":23647,"date":"2023-08-22T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/planting-seeds\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:00:48","slug":"planting-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/planting-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a child in Adams County\u00a0in central Pennsylvania, our family planted large gardens with corn, beans, watermelons, potatoes, and all sorts of plants. I would walk outside each morning to see how much the seeds had grown. This memory reminded me of Jesus\u2019 parable of the mustard seed in which He says of the Kingdom of God:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade\u201d\u00a0(Mark 4:30-32).<\/p>\n

Life is about where you\u2019re going, not only where you\u2019ve been.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>Those tiny seeds maturated, and we were able to enjoy the vegetables for meals. We had to battle hot, rainy, and cools days to assist the growth of the vegetables. Rabbits would come and eat the plants. We created fences to keep the critters from the garden. Sometimes it was discouraging after all the work. But we kept at the garden.<\/p>\n

I thought about that idea with our Christian lives. No matter how hard our past has been, no matter who has betrayed you, gossiped about you, lied or stolen from you, the seeds of God\u2019s word you plant will bear fruit. We cannot allow the past to haunt or shape our future.\u00a0Yes, our ultimate destination is Heaven, but we have a life to live today and enjoy with people and the Lord.<\/p>\n

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Image: Francesco Gallarotti<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friends, when you continue to sow the seed of God\u2019s word, your spiritual growth is unlimited!\u00a0Life is about where you\u2019re going, not only where you\u2019ve been.\u00a0Are you planting God\u2019s seed in the fertile ground of your life? You have the privilege to commit yourself to the Lord\u2019s word, devote yourself, water, and care for it. God\u2019s guarantees His seeds will produce God\u2019s kingdom. I want to encourage you now<\/em> to plant the seeds of God in the lives of the people you meet every day. God promises to grow the seed. Our part is to participate and plant the seed. We have the easy part; God does the miraculous part!<\/p>\n

In this summer of the Holy Spirit, may God awaken your heart as you read this message. Believe and trust in His growth for your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a child in Adams County\u00a0in central Pennsylvania, our family planted large gardens with corn, beans, watermelons, potatoes, and all sorts of plants. I would walk outside each morning to see how much the seeds had grown. This memory reminded me of Jesus\u2019 parable of the mustard seed in which He says of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3038,"featured_media":23648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3127],"tags":[6936,6542,6937],"ppma_author":[4482],"class_list":["post-23647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-the-faith","category-summer-2023","tag-grow","tag-planting","tag-seeds","author-cletuslhull"],"authors":[{"term_id":4482,"user_id":3038,"is_guest":0,"slug":"cletuslhull","display_name":"Cletus Hull","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CletusHull2014-163x163-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CletusHull2014-163x163-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23647"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}