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“And some…fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold” (Luke 8:7-8).
Spring is arriving in our little corner of the world right now. It has been a long and cold winter, with an unusually late spring, but there is a fuzz of green bursting out on the trees, and the early flowers such as daffodils are in bloom. We live in a wooded area and don’t have much sunshine in our yard. But we have a tiny garden in a sunny spot, and we are always checking it for those first shoots of green that show us there is life. How eagerly we wait for those signs!
The Lord looks for signs of life in us as well. And we older ones who care a lot about you young people, look for those life-signs in you. Sometimes, even though we may truly belong to the Lord, we don’t “bloom” much. Do others around us know that there is divine life in us? They should be able to see it!
Our small garden wouldn’t grow us anything if it didn’t get any sunshine! We need to keep in the sunshine of His love to produce fruit. How do we do that? Reading God’s Word and talking with Him in prayer. You too can “bring forth an hundredfold”!
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