Just plant a seed; God knows what to do with it.
“There are many times when I feel very small, when I see others around me doing big and visible things leading institutions and organizations and large events in the body of Christ, and I am one man doing about as much as one man can do, but that isn’t very much. [My friend] reminded me that I am a seed, even as Jesus described Himself in John 12:24. And what do you do with a seed? Plant it in the cold dark ground. That’s the only place a seed can become productive. Now the interesting thing about a seed is this: a seed never sees the fruit it bears. The seed that gives rise to the tallest most stately redwood tree in the forest never sees that tree. So it is with all of us: we’ll never see the ultimate fruit we bear. Also, a seed cannot sow itself; it can only be sown by the Sower. And if we trust Jesus to be the Sower we know He will bear His kind of fruit through us.”
~ Bill Lawrence, Leader Formation International
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