Thursday, November 20, 2008

From Acorn to Oak

I am just an acorn, but I want to be an oak.
I want to understand and share all the words that Jesus spoke.
I want to grow in Christ and become a sturdy tree,
with my roots embedded in His Word and His Word alive in me.
I want to serve a purpose; I want to be used by God,
and an oak can be so much more than can a simple acorn pod.
I know there dwells within me the precious living seed,
but as long as I remain an acorn, that power isn't freed.
I must deny my tendency to retain my acorn form,
or I will never grow roots and branches and soak up the Sonshine, warm
If I remain an acorn, I'll soon be a hollow shell,
and the potential now within me, no longer there will dwell.
If I'm to be an oak, I must die to self beneath the earth
and allow God to work within me and give my life new worth.
For the growing of an oak tree begins within, unseen,
even before anyone notices a little sprout of green.
Every tall, sturdy, useful oak tree, began an acorn, small.
Without the dying acorn, there would be no oak at all.

"Truly, truly, I say unto you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and ies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal" John 12:24-25

"That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies, and that which you sow you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own." 1 Corinthians 15:36-38

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