Stay in your bad soil
When we are in seasons of desolateness, of dryness, and weltering, is our first reaction to uproot ourselves and move to another place that is seems better? Yes. Naturally so, and this is not a bad thing, its inherently grained into us to be in a place, socially, spiritually, economically, and physically, that we can flourish. However, what if we instead of seeking out a place with better soil for our growth, we sought to change the composition of the soil. In Luke 13:6-9 Jesus talks about a parable similar to this: The story is about a man who had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking to see it bear fruit for THREE YEARS and found none. For three years this man had a fig tree in his garden that was useless. His natural reaction? to tell the vine-dresser to cut it down because it was "wasting space" and "useless." The vine-dresser, being skilled in his craft had another solution. In stead of laboring over uprooting the fig tree, and act that ...
