A seed planted

This morning as I was traveling back from Boston, I was caught up in the idea of seeds. I thought about all the things a seed will do and what it can hold or contain. Depending on the seed, it has potential to grow trees and create children and supply food.

One of the most amazing things is that the seed is not representative of what the final product looks like. Unlike an Erector Set or Lincoln Logs or Legos in which you can “tell” where the result is headed, when you see a seed you do not know necessarily if it will be big or tall, green or red or pretty much anything else.

But as I thought about all the negativity in the world and the constant complaining and such, I thought the following.

If you are a seed growing up into a plant and all the world just threw poison on you, how long would you last?

Yet somehow we think “allowing” the poisons of negativity and condemnation is going to be any different. You and I are designed to not just be above the negativity but to create an atmosphere of the opposite. To speak words of affirmation and positivity. (I am not saying, do not correct, but I am saying do NOT kill or leave people in a broken down state.)

The people of the kingdom were designed for better. Not to poison a destiny but to posit words of creation and goodness.

Are our words “fertilizing”, watering and tending or are we putting “Roundup” and other poisons on our garden? And it is our garden. What we decide will be what we will see.

Some “plants” may be hardier than others and weather the storm but that does not mean they will produce as intended while others may wilt and die away.

All seed is potential. What can it become? The answer is ours.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.