When is enough water, enough?
When do you decide something is dead and beyond returning to life?
When do you rip what was once thriving and lush and beautifully full of life from the ground because it is completely dead?
That call is hard and most often painful.
You cling to hope there’s some life left and the memory of what once was is real.
You planted seeds.
You watered.
You bent into the sun.
But still, death is all you see.
But, is it dead?
Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t.
Maybe God isn’t finished with the life cycle of whatever it is you consider dead.
Could it be the current season you’re in is winter?
God knows your heart. He sees you.
The Son brings the water and causes the growth.
He’ll never leave you dry or drowning.
When the time for uprooting is upon you, He will do the uprooting.
He will uproot the place or person and grow Himself deeper.
In you.
Don’t leave dead things longer than you should or ignore something that needs uprooting.
The time for uprooting may come but don’t refuse to dig.
The dirt and the digging come before the fruit.
And if there’s no fruit but only a dead thing, don’t give that thing any more holy ground in the soil of your life.