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Regenerated Discards
Posted by
Steve Diehl
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21 July 2012
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My dad recently discarded a Hosta plant that just wasn’t doing well where it was planted. It was dying. So, he did what anyone would do. He got rid of it, throwing it into the rocky area behind some trees in the back yard. A few weeks later he noticed that the plant had somehow re-rooted itself. It’s like the plant wanted to prove it could survive even the toughest treatment and the injustice of being misunderstood. The plant not only survived but it had thrived, like God had done a miracle of regeneration and renewal in the face of people giving up on it.
Dad, in his mercy and grace, helped the plant. It is now doing very well after being repotted in new soil. Even after being devalued and disgarded, it is flourishing in a new place, blossoming to God’s glory. With new soil and a new setting it has become a beautiful plant, growing like it was totally regenerated. It just needed a replant with an environmental change that granted renewed opportunity. It needed someone to come along and care.
There are people and forces in the world who would like to see you and others deleted and discarded. They have given up on you, or someone you know.
Not God.
Don't give up on yourself or others you are walking with.
Be encouraged.
Who are you encouraging? Who are you walking alongside? The calling is to make disciples....of ALL nations. No disgards.
“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor 5:16-18)
Dad, in his mercy and grace, helped the plant. It is now doing very well after being repotted in new soil. Even after being devalued and disgarded, it is flourishing in a new place, blossoming to God’s glory. With new soil and a new setting it has become a beautiful plant, growing like it was totally regenerated. It just needed a replant with an environmental change that granted renewed opportunity. It needed someone to come along and care.
There are people and forces in the world who would like to see you and others deleted and discarded. They have given up on you, or someone you know.
Not God.
Don't give up on yourself or others you are walking with.
Be encouraged.
Who are you encouraging? Who are you walking alongside? The calling is to make disciples....of ALL nations. No disgards.
“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor 5:16-18)
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