The past two days have been long and hard working. Tuesday I spent almost the entire sunlit day pulling grass, plants, flowers and whatever else was growing in that field. As we were pulling some were just plain stubborn. Like stubborn to the point where I had the plant wraped around my hand, grasping on with the other hand, knees bent, quoting scripture and pulling with all the might I had in me. NOTHING. After we got out the machetti looking thing and shovels we were sucessful. Then we got to talking about what it means to be rooted and grounded in the Word, rooted and grounded in Christ. Now for the rest of the day this is all I can think of. I look at the pretty ones with flowers and long vines that entangle themselvs into to others, and was suprised how quickly the were ripeed out of the ground. Interetsing. I then got to noticing the ones that would snap off at the top, yet left behind strong roots and would grow back within time. Then there was this plant, translated into english its called the “shy plant” the leaves are green but when you touch them they close up into purple. They also have thorns all over. These plants were some of the ones that were so hard to pull up. I was thinking that these plants must be important becasue they have two defence mechanisims and are also so hard to pull out. It was like they knew they had such stong and important roots they were fighting to keep them in and grounded. Once I, this outside force, against the plants good will ripped it out a HUGE mess was left. All of this may mean nothing to you but it just made me think about people and thier lives and how they invest themselvs. Sometimes I feel like the plant that has pretty good roots but gets snapped off at the top. Sometimes I feel like I know what I beleive and what I am living for but I don’t put up a good fight for it, I let things come around and hack me down to nothing, where I need to re grow. This is like time wasted when I could be tall and strong and giving shade to the people around me. I desire to be more like the “shy” plant, some one that when some one starts poking me I start to defend myself, and when they go in to attack I can fight back and stand firm, not moving. At launch it was prophisied over me that I need to be and will be bold. At first I was confused becasue I feel like I am a bold person, stand up for things and fight, but God reminded me I need to be bold for him. I need to be bold for him in my life and where I stand, which is on the rock of Christ Jesus. What kind of plant are you choosing to be?
