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A Time to Uproot
Posted by: | CommentsA Time to Pluck Up
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven–
2A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
We’ve had a lot of rain here in northwest
One Sunday recently my friend Marie Lewey was leading worship. She talked about the rain and referenced how we could just soak in God’s presence. And that we did. God showed up in such beautiful ways.
In the midst of what Marie was sharing, she mentioned that when the ground was saturated, it was a good time to pull things up. She said that she and her husband Ronnie had recognized that it was a good time to work in the flower beds on this particular weekend, pulling weeds, removing annuals and relocating some perennials. "It was so much easier because the ground was saturated," she said.
I could see the picture in my mind. A big strong hand pulling up a dying flower with the roots hanging down covered with wet soil. And I thought of this verse. There is a time to uproot what is planted.
Some things that are planted do need to be uprooted. An annual’s season comes to an end. Having completed its cycle in one year, it’s purpose has passed and it’s beauty has faded.
For the annual, if we are not able to pull up the entire root system, we will just have a lot of unhealthy root systems left under the ground. They will cause the new flower to have to work harder to establish its own root system because the old roots are in the way.
When the rain of God’s Spirit has saturated the ground of our hearts, its time to allow God’s strong hand to reach in and pull up what is out of season, what is not needed, what is in the way. In the delicate care of people, it takes The Master Gardener of Creation, God’s Spirit to show us the season.
Is the ground of your heart soft today? Or perhaps you are just beginning to feel the rain. Remember that there really is a season for everything.
