I became frustrated sorting all the Tupperware. “We need more space, God!” I yelled in a whisper. God said to me, “Have less stuff.” Sometimes, God just gets to the point. If I weren’t busy with nonsense work, then I’d have plenty of space and time to unpack how I felt. God does quick, precise work.
Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, he goes in with his sickle at once because the harvest has come” Mark 4: 26-29.
I’ve never successfully solved a problem by avoiding it, hiding it from myself, or stacking things on top of it. Instead, the tools I use are conversations with friends, therapy, prayer, and rest. Yet solutions come because God works, after I’ve sown seeds of hope or despair through prayer. With a precise word, God reminds me that God is at work in me.
This message is excerpted from “God works through us” by Amy Waelchli in the July 2024 Café online magazine.
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