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2 P&P Weekly Blog for 29 July - 4 August 2023
I love how cucumber vines develop flowers before they yield their harvest. In other words, these sweet yellow blooms—make it obvious—that something is about to grow, and you’re about to have fresh vegetables. This is one of our favorite things about Summer. Watching the seeds and plants turn into flourishing, vibrant, colorful gardens is impressive. Seeing all manner of fruit trees and crops do the same is a blessing. As we enjoyed some of the beauty of what we’d planted months ago one cool morning, seeing the array of colors and textures in our containers on the back deck, in our flowerbeds, and our little garden patch was beautiful. God’s been busy, and we were praising Him for the bounty.
Did you know that He’s busy in your heart too? He’s always at work—much like flowers on the cucumber—displaying something of His character, love, and grace from deep within. He’s shaping, deepening roots, and pruning things as necessary to help us thrive. And He loves to sit back and watch fruit develop from the disciplines we practice daily.
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.” Colossians 1:9-10 NIV
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:6-7 NIV
“And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself.” Ephesians 3:17-19 TLB
Oh Lord, may there always be something flowering, growing—becoming evident—in our lives that we are clinging to you. May Your love shine through us with a sunny disposition or willing hands to serve You. May You help us trust You by sharing our testimony with greater courage and ease. And may You help us shine for Your glory—in every season, we pray. Amen.
P. S. This week, the cucumbers began to yield their promised vegetables. God is good indeed! He always completes what He started (Philippians 1:6).
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