Where’s All My Greens?

 

I love greens!  Any kind of greens…mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens…you name it!  I got the bright idea to plant some turnip and mustard greens in my little raised garden in the back yard, so I went to the feed store and bought a couple of bags of seed.

Having never attempted to grow greens before, I strewed the seeds on my little four by eight garden and raked them under.  Within a week or so, they were sprouting forth.  It looked like a bonanza of greens!

I decided to let them alone and keep growing, so I’d have greens coming out my ears!  After a few weeks of watching my greens grow, they only grew so much and then they stopped growing.  They weren’t even big enough to harvest for cooking because they were still too small to eat.  It occurred to me that maybe I had gone a little overboard and tried to grow too many greens in my little garden which overwhelmed my little growing space. 

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I think I do the same thing in my personal life.  I try to shoehorn way too much work, activities and stuff into my already crammed schedule.  Sometimes I even wake up in the middle of the night and remember something that I forgot to do during the day.

Often, all of my scurrying and business doesn’t seem to bear much fruit for the Lord or for anyone else.  I’ve just tried to do way too much with far too little and, most importantly, often without the Lord’s guidance and direction.

The Lord speaks to all of us who are too busy in Psalm 46:10-11; “Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.  The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is here among us; the God of Israel is our fortress.”

So don’t forget to spend some time alone with God and His Word everyday so that your life will be filled with His power, hope, truth, love, mercy and grace.  Then your life will bear fruit for Christ.