![]() Or we can be streams of life-giving water, by spending time with Jesus and letting Him fill us to overflowing. It’s our choice: we can be “spiritual tumbleweeds,” wandering aimlessly, ignoring our source of life-giving water, rootless and blown off course by every wayward wind. Our Master has a divine plan and we can be part of it. Not the smallest act is wasted when we do it in obedience to Jesus’ leading. To everyone else we’ll appear as “good people.” But eternal fruit happens only when the Holy Spirit is working in us and through us. ![]() We can do many compassionate acts in this world. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Yet in John 7, Jesus states living water will flow out from believers and the next verse makes it clear that the living water He’s talking about is the Holy Spirit,ģ8 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. In Jeremiah 2:13, Yahweh refers to Himself as “the spring of living water.” It will save us both time.Īs Christians, we are meant to be supernatural sources of living water in this world. So if anyone ever wants to put me on a pedestal, I’ll lend you my sledgehammer. I might as well confess right now that my most passionate posts are often on the topics I’m being convicted about by the Holy Spirit. There’s just something sad about neglecting my own advice. I had to go off and worship the Lord for several minutes, because I got too busy today and didn’t spend any time with Him. ![]() But we fail to spend time with the One who called us. We focus on the task that needs to be accomplished next and try to reach more people. Who thinks he can make it on muscle aloneįrankly, these verses scare me, because it’s a fault American Christians-and Christian writers easily slip into. “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, So why am I writing about tumbleweeds? Well, several weeks ago, I came across these verses in the Message Bible. If a town succeeds, a fresh wind can blow other tumbleweeds in from miles away, each of them flinging down thousands of new seeds. These plants are very hard to get rid of. The dried stems and leaves can be used for kindling, but if a wildfire breaks out, a flaming tumbleweed will spread the fire much faster. They produce no fruit and out-compete other plant species for resources, like water. Like mosquitoes, they’re aggravating and sometimes dangerous. It’s hard to say anything good about them. (Please see the amazing video under “Resources.”) Tumbleweeds can travel for several miles, wherever the wind drives them. Sometimes the dead tumbleweeds clump up in such large numbers that people are trapped inside their homes.As it tumbles, each tumbleweed sheds thousands of seeds across the landscape.At some point, the dead tumbleweed breaks off at the stem and begins to tumble.The dead parent plant then dries out and tangles into a prickly ball. People handling dead tumbleweeds need to wear gloves, because the leaves wither and change into tiny spines.The aging plant dies, usually after the first frost.Young plants can be weeded, or killed with herbicides, but unfortunately other tumbleweeds sprout up in the surrounding uncultivated areas and in the desert.At least one species looks like innocent tuffs of grass when it first appears. The plant germinates in the spring and then flowers in the late summer.They often grow in poor soil under dry conditions.A meadow or any place where other plants are established blocks the seeds from the soil.Tumbleweed seeds need disrupted soil to grow, either a tilled field or ground broken up by the hoof prints of cattle or by machinery.They live only one year, germinating in the spring or early summer. Thus the tumbleweed’s conquest of America began. The invasion happened very quietly. A seed or two apparently came over in a shipment of Russian flax. The earliest tumbleweeds were actually Russian Thistles. There are a few different species, but the first tumbleweeds showed up in Scotland, South Dakota shortly after the Civil War ended. ![]() The tumbleweed isn’t native to the American southwest instead, it’s a foreign invader. ![]()
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