Often, we hear this term from family in regards to our going to India. Usually it’s spoken out of fear of the unknown, or even our of just not understanding why we can’t “just be happy here.” but we could. We could be very happy just staying here, growing our farm, setting up our house, and raising our little family.
Tonight we were talking with a family over ice cream. They are new believers and had been talking about not knowing whether they should stay at the church they are at or not.
I said, “We have a farm, and you know, tomatoes start as these little bitty seeds. It goes into the ground and it doesn’t stay a seed. It sprouts and grows into a little plant and eventually produces more tomatoes. Those tomatoes aren’t all supposed to stay there. Some of them are meant to stay so their seeds grow into more tomato plants, but other tomatoes are supposed to be picked and taken to another place. This then is used to bring nutrients to many others, sometimes the seeds are saved and sent across the street to a neighbor, across town to someone wanting to plant tomatoes for the first time, and even across the world to a third world country to someone who has never had a tomato or even proper nutrients.”
This is where I see us, we are tomatoes being sent to those who have never had the nutrients of the Word of God. So many souls are starving – they are dying lost and headed to a devil’s hell, and God is asking us to be used, sent, planted and used to spread the seeds of the Word of God.
The great thing about this too, is we don’t even have to wait until we go to “our field”. We are here now. This is where God is using us now – and that’s okay. Later, when and if God still transplants us there, then that is where, by God’s grace, we will grow, and the gospel will spread until the entire region has come to Christ.
Morral of the story – If God has planted you, grow where and who you are – in Christ. And if He transplants you, then grow and spread the Word of God where he moves you. You never know who is desperate for the nutrients of the Gospel.
C. C.
Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
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