It requires incredible faith to grow anything from a seed. I imagine telling someone without any prior knowledge what it would take. You'd tell them to dig a hole, drop a seed in, sprinkle some water on it on occasion, and wait. There's nothing else you can do at that point -- you're just waiting.
The Bible uses agricultural images a lot. Partly because that's the community to which the Bible was written, and partly because they work so well. Faith requires trust -- it's not something we can control. The coming of the Lord is at hand, but it's not up to us when and how it happens.
So let us establish our hearts and pursue Christ as though it is the most important thing in life, because it is. And let us turn over our anxieties to God, because our worry does not advance our faith. May we wait in patience, trusting in God who has proved to be trustworthy, and wait for the Holy Spirit to direct our path.
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