July 22, 2013 - What Seed Did You Plant?

Taking my lunch break to chat for a moment as Monday mornings are really busy for me. We start another week together and it's all good! I would love to see some sunshine and dry days, but I know that God has a plan. No matter what I think, He has a plan. He is God during the rain and during the drought. I cannot allow the condition of the weather or the prediction of the skies to affect my attitude. ANYWAY - I was hoping that during all this rain we would have HUGE watermelons. But not so! As you remember, we had a bad time with them last year and I didn't plant any this go round.....but the little volunteer guys jumped up. So I determined if they survived it would be because they wanted to. The vines have run and spread, the flowers have popped out, but no fruit. So disappointing to me! But I love it when God uses those pictures in nature to show me things about Kathy. How about you? I was just discussing with Terry that I pray God show me areas in my life that need pruning because they produce NOTHING - they look like a watermelon vine, spread like a watermelon vine, have flowers like a watermelon vine BUT PRODUCE NO FRUIT. I don't want to be that person who "appears" to bear fruit, but none exists. I will tell you that today I am pulling the watermelon vines from the ground as they have spread over a huge territory of our yard. I hate this, but other flowers that are producing need all the space they can get. YIKES! Terry starting listing reasons that perhaps they have not produced and all seem legit, but in the end it didn't help with the outcome. As I was reading this morning in one devotionals, I was reminded from Genesis 1:11-12, that the kind of seed sewn determines the fruit produced. That seems simple, but it so profound. I considered the plans I have made for my body today and evaluated what seeds I intended to sew. Will these seeds produce what I expect for my body and health? Planting M and M's by the handfuls may not produce the type of fruit I need for a healthy journey??? But I imagine the raspberries and fresh peaches I will prepare for dinner will deposit healthy seed. Yes? Then, I have the RIGHT to expect the correct harvest. See where I am going with this? So let's all pause and consider what enters our bodies today - even our eye gates as we watch TV or the news. What type of harvest will these yield and am I okay with this? Also, I am pondering the watermelon vines being pulled today. I told my husband that I don't want to ever find myself in a position of unfruitfulness where someone determines I need to be pulled and discarded as I appear to produce but do not. TOTALLY different than being pruned; I desire for dead things to be trimmed so I produce deeper and stronger. The key phrase here is PRODUCE. Questions: 1) what are you planting and 2) what are you producing??? Much love, PK