Re:Verse passage – Mark 4:26-32 (day two)
“The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.”
Nothing remains unchanged of all that has been created. All things in the world proceed according to their way. And everything has a way, whether good or bad, desirable or undesirable – fruit, results, effects, endpoints. Sometimes you can trace the origin of an outcome, and sometimes you can’t. It’s all too much to track, regardless. You’ve blamed yourself for hardship when you had no power to change what happened. You’ve credited yourself for success instead of expressing gratitude for good fortune. And amidst it all, unseen, God acts to move this universe along according to his purpose. To learn the way of yielding to God’s activity is the lifelong discipline from which come contentment, thanksgiving, humility, and joy.
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Bryan,
Thanks for this word…a very great reminder indeed!
Amen! Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life. John 14:6
Beautiful words for those who carry around a burden of guilt and self blame that is not theirs to carry. Better to lay it at the feet of Jesus and to enter into His rest.