The life of a blade of Grass...

I have always thought that grass was an interesting plant. In America, we use this plant to make our yards look nice. We use it to cover the mud, the dirt, the nastiness of our front yards so that our dogs can go to the bathroom without getting their feet sopped in a muddy mess. We use grass to create an illusion of carpet on our yards. But grass really doesn't grow for that purpose. Trees grow for a purpose. They grow to produce more trees. So does grass. The truth is, we limit the purpose of grass by topping off the heads when it gets to long. The purpose of grass is to grow tall, create seeds, drop seeds and then grow more plants. We have created a space for grass to grow but not necessarily live within it's purpose. We have created some new purpose for it.

I wonder how many times we create a new purpose for the body of Christ? How many times is the body of Christ like the grass where we are supposed to just look nice and cover the nastiness that we are rooted in? Our purpose is to GO and make disciples of all nations and yet for some reason, we decide that this isn't our purpose and we become a domesticated, mowed body of Christ instead of a wild, producing crop that multiplies over and over again! Our passions and desires are not lined up with the gospel or with Christ and so we tend to make our own "spiritual" purposes up instead of following who God has made us to be...

While I am not going to stop cutting my grass, I wonder how many of us need to grow and grow and grow so that we can produce and be passionate about the unplanted soul. How many of us are sprouting seeds instead of getting clipped to look nice?