Happy Friday!
Grace & Peace to you! This week’s #Intersections have been so good! I hope God has showed you some Holy Spirit Truth this week!
- Mark 4:26-34: Jesus shares two parables of God’s Reign using the metaphor of seeds. In the first, he speaks about a farmer who plants seeds without knowing how they grow. In the second, he describes how the small mustard seed grows to become a large plant in which birds can nest.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17: Followers of Christ live by faith and not by sight, and do everything with the view to please God. Although we may at times seem crazy, we are compelled by Christ’s love. So we no longer live our old life, but a new one in Christ for whom we live, and who was raised for us.
- Ezekiel 17:22-24: God speaks through the prophet using an image of a small branch that is planted on a high mountain, becoming a large tree. The message is that God makes small trees large and brings down large trees, and God makes green trees wither and dead trees live.
- Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15: A celebration of God’s goodness and unfailing love, and an affirmation of how the godly flourish and produce fruit.
Here is what God taught me:
- Primary metaphor – Seed / Tree / Fruit
- The Kingdom of God is like a seed that God nurtures to grow to bear fruit, multiplying to fill the earth (The New Creation).
- God does the growing, we are willing participants.
- God’s love nurtures us in His New Creation, compelling us to love all people with a heavenly point of view.
What did you find this week?
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