Do you need power? I do.

I live in a world that is constantly calling for our attention. It cries out, “Look at this.  You need this.”

Jesus is saying the same thing.  “David, look at me.  You need me.  David, you really need me.”

When I look at Jesus I am encountering light. When I listen, read and think about Jesus I am being charged with light.  Power is being planted in us. When I listen to the word of God and obey... I am being transformed by light.

My garden is transformed from dirt and composed manure to a tapestry of greens by the seed I plant, the water and the sun.

The water constantly washes over the dirt making all its nutrients available to the plants. It washes over the decaying compost and picks up minerals and parts of the manure. It may carry it deep into the dirt or simply moisten the soil, so that the next watering will move it again.

The Bible says I am watered by hearing the word. Others are influenced by me as I speak the word and obey it. You know someone who waters by their action. They gently cover the plant and the soil with water.  Someone with a hose on full power, who wants to move dirt off of the sidewalk or driveway is not watering.  He might water a nearby area. But the area to which the hose is directed is intended to be cleaned, not watered.

Water may come harsh or gentle. It blesses when it come regularly.  It blesses by its gentleness. It has ability to wash every leaf of a plant and not damage or frighten.  It washes over leaves and compost leaving the plant hungry at its roots. There the plant will embrace, absorb and transform the water and everything the plant lives in, into its life.

Light must come to my garden or nothing and no one grows to its potential.  Light embraces the plant with warmth, it energizes the process of photosynthesis and growth. Light causes the plant to reach for the source of the light.
 
The light of God’s mission and character has one purpose: to transform.  The warmth of the son transforms a seed into a seedling. The light which energizes photosynthesis powers transformation. As the plant reaches higher it is changed from a weak seeding, which looks like so many other seedlings, into the fruitful life God designed.