It’s pea season! Sugar snaps. Snow peas. I love to munch the whole pod raw or lightly stir fry them! Mom always said you could count on fresh snap peas for the 4th of July and, true to form, my plants are producing. I’m harvesting from the garden every other day because if I don’t, the plant will stop producing. Pods left too long get dry, bitter tasting and become seeds for the next season. Once the plant ‘goes to seed’, it puts all its energy into making seeds, stops producing edible peas and dies. Sadly, I am sometimes too busy to harvest and my crop ends early.
Our faith is like a pea plant.
We need to tend our faith regularly or we don’t yield as much as fruit as we’re capable of producing. If we stop producing fruit for too long, we dry up and soon die. I am re-energized when I observe the results of my efforts for God. I am filled with new spirit when a reader replies that a post inspired them, or a stranger smiles after a random kindness, or a friend is comforted because I’ve taking time to listen. You can study and worship and believe in your heart, but James tells us if you don’t put it into practice and DO what scripture instructs, your faith will die.
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Our faith is NOT like a pea plant.
At some point the pea plant is done producing new peas and naturally transitions into seed making. With faith, however, we serve others and scatter seeds at the same time.
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