Into my life, God dropped a tiny seed,
His Love reply to my or someone’s need.
Looking at that seed and the need so vast,
At first glance, my soul was very downcast.
On the need, my gaze was so intensified,
That, in my mind, it was highly magnified.
From this great need, will I ever find relief?!
Then I heard His voice challenging my belief:
Son, you know Me as full of Love and Grace,
Released as My Word and ways you embrace.
When by your need your mind is so captured,
By My ways, your life is not enraptured.
My seed to you, a word to be received and obeyed,
Is like a song that’s unsung or music that’s unplayed.
Their melodic phrases will never be enjoyed,
If by music notations people are annoyed.
His seed, like notes to be played or songs to be sung??
His Word, to be received and confessed by my tongue??
So I searched everywhere, but could not seem to find,
That tiny seed in which God’s power is enshrined.
Exhausted from my search, I sat down to rest, then to reflect.
Temptations arose, ‘Now’s the time your growing need to
inspect!’
‘No! Be gone from me!’, to that thought I quipped!
‘To magnify my need, I’ll not be tripped!’
So I reached for my Bible, God’s holy writ,
To help me dig out of temptation’s pit.
To my delight, there I found reminders of His seed,
This time, it’s planting instructions indeed I would heed!
Through meditation, I planted His seed in my heart,
Then I retrained my tongue to do its confession part.
Over time, my faith began to grow, then to surge,
Prompting fruits from His seed in my life to emerge.
Then it dawned on me: That need was gone!
I was no longer temptation’s pawn!
So I bowed to thank God for the loving manner,
In which He meets needs and spreads His Glory banner.
Oh for faith to perceive and act on seeds that God assigns,
Rather than responding to impulses of carnal minds,
And for wisdom to defeat doubts of the tempter,
That there is no God, and to our needs no answer!
Through trusting faith in Jesus as your Christ,
From sin you are freed, and from its great price.
In Him you have all that pertains to life and Godliness,
Written in indelible ink of God’s Word promises.*
To us, each promise is presented as a mere seed,
And it comes with planting instructions that we must heed.
When planted in hearts that believe, and on tongues that
confess,
In time, Heaven’s answers to all of our needs …will
coalesce.
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* 2 Peter 1:3
