Acorns
'They will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.' - Isaiah 61:3
I went for a walk with a friend yesterday and we came across an oak tree. She picked off an acorn to take home and later in the day I thought about that acorn. In it, is the potential to become such a great and mighty tree. It’s mind boggling what an acorn or any seed has the potential to become. This is one of the wonders of being a gardener. The best bit is planting the seed into the soil and thinking of the potential, the promise on the back of the packet and the quick prayer that it will become all it can be.
I thought about it in relation to our conversation about the gift of the spirit and then this morning, my daily prayer reading included Ephesians 3:14. It seems relevant to what we were speaking about. Paul prays that God will strengthen the Ephesians with power through His Spirit in their inner beings so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith and that they may be rooted and established in love.
If we ask for God’s Spirit to come and abide in us we will be given strength - His power will work in us and that power is love in action. God can then do so much more through us, more than we can ask or imagine.
We see an acorn in our hand, but God see the tree. So, in the same way that I pray over my plants, let’s remember to pray for ourselves, to be rooted and established in love; to reach our full potential.
As I was watching Jane Austen’s Emma last night, I was struck by a particular line when Emma’s father says to her, ‘You don’t know what fear is until you have a child.’ That made me think. Not that God is fearful but what it must have taken for Him to let go of His child in order to save the rest of His children on earth. How much He must have loved the world, to let go of Jesus, in order that we might become all that He originally purposed us to be. For us to have the freedom to live life in all its fullness.
If it matters that much to God that we should grow into all our potential, let’s allow it to matter to us and pray for it .... praying Eph 3:14 is a great start.
- Jesse Kaur
the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.' - Isaiah 61:3
I went for a walk with a friend yesterday and we came across an oak tree. She picked off an acorn to take home and later in the day I thought about that acorn. In it, is the potential to become such a great and mighty tree. It’s mind boggling what an acorn or any seed has the potential to become. This is one of the wonders of being a gardener. The best bit is planting the seed into the soil and thinking of the potential, the promise on the back of the packet and the quick prayer that it will become all it can be.
I thought about it in relation to our conversation about the gift of the spirit and then this morning, my daily prayer reading included Ephesians 3:14. It seems relevant to what we were speaking about. Paul prays that God will strengthen the Ephesians with power through His Spirit in their inner beings so that Christ may dwell in their hearts through faith and that they may be rooted and established in love.
If we ask for God’s Spirit to come and abide in us we will be given strength - His power will work in us and that power is love in action. God can then do so much more through us, more than we can ask or imagine.
We see an acorn in our hand, but God see the tree. So, in the same way that I pray over my plants, let’s remember to pray for ourselves, to be rooted and established in love; to reach our full potential.
As I was watching Jane Austen’s Emma last night, I was struck by a particular line when Emma’s father says to her, ‘You don’t know what fear is until you have a child.’ That made me think. Not that God is fearful but what it must have taken for Him to let go of His child in order to save the rest of His children on earth. How much He must have loved the world, to let go of Jesus, in order that we might become all that He originally purposed us to be. For us to have the freedom to live life in all its fullness.
If it matters that much to God that we should grow into all our potential, let’s allow it to matter to us and pray for it .... praying Eph 3:14 is a great start.
- Jesse Kaur
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