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What Color Is Your Grass?
While driving yesterday, I was able to notice a huge difference between the farmers who are irrigating their cotton fields, and those who have depended on rain alone. After returning to town, it was easy to see the difference between those who water their lawns and those who don't. It was also easy to see those who water often, those who water just enough to keep things alive, and those who have given up on the scorching summer heat.
In 1 Cor 3:6, Paul talks about the need for watering the seed of the Word after it is planted. In the context here, Paul is talking about teaching the Word of God, and it growing in the hearts of the lost, but would the same not apply in the hearts of the saved? Will there be any growth or even the ability not to lose what we have if we don't ever water?
The varying degrees and conditions of the lawns I saw yesterday would prove that true in terms of nature. Those who water often, and hit all the corners have lawns covered with green grass. Those who water just enough to keep things alive have a lesser maintained lawn, with varying degrees of yellow and greenish grasses. Those who have just held out waiting for rain, unfortunately, have lost most of the color in their grass, although it would likely spring back to life with a good rain shower. Then there are those who have totally walked away, given up on trying to keep a lawn or perhaps in many cases, never even tried. These have little to no grass, lots of wilting weeds in many cases, and are pretty bare and void of any significant life.
In the parable of the sower in Matt 13, Jesus compares spiritual life to nature in a very similar way, so that people could understand, and in our example above, we see how important watering is to keeping vegetation alive. Today, if you had to compare your spiritual situation to the lawns in our town in the midst of this moderate drought, have you been watering sufficiently to keep your faith alive and well? Have you been watering just enough to keep it alive, but it's struggling? Have you waited for someone else to water for you and that hasn't happened and you are teetering on the edge of a dead faith, or God forbid, have you just given up, and allowed satan and his band of weeds to take over?
It is urgently important that we sufficiently water our lives with the Word of God, the living water from above, to maintain, strengthen, and grow our faith. Where are you today? Is your spiritual lawn green and healthy? Do you need to water a little more often, or receive a good rain shower to spring you back to life? If your life is full of weeds, don't let another day go by, open up the tap to the living water, and green things up!
