It rained last night and the timing was perfect. I sowed winter rye grass in my pasture just before the rains came. Well, to be more precise, my son-in-law sowed part of it when they were here last weekend and I sowed more this weekend.
The rain was a little harder than I had hoped. We received a few perfect gentle showers and then it came in a couple of "frog stranglers" that probably washed the seed around in the pasture. It will make for some interesting patterns of growth. The seeds are light enough to ride on the water as it washes across the field until it pools and there, they will wash against the shore of the tiny puddles until the sun comes out and dries them. I will be able to see all of the low spots in the pasture because of the way the rye grass will grow.
It makes me think of how people are subject to similar occurrences. Things occur in our lives that send us drifting at times unless we are rooted into the soil. We drift until we settle into a pool that no longer reflects where we should be, but where we have gone due to our lack of an anchor.
The lack of anchor is most obvious in those who have drifted into crime, or dependence on drugs or alcohol. It is less obvious in other areas but, there nonetheless. Bad habits, chronic destructive behavior and perhaps even homelessness are symptoms of the drift from being caught in the currents that wash over us.
The only solution is to be anchored in something that can withstand those currents. For me, that anchor is Jesus.
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ. Colossians 2:6-8
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