Every Plant Which My Heavenly Father Has Not Planted Will Be Uprooted

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I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire!  (Luke 24:32)

“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.”

That’s what Jesus said in Matthew 15:13, and wow, those are sobering words.

“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.”

I really don’t like wasting time.  And I REALLY don’t like wasting money.  Waste of all kinds irks me, because it means loss.  If you wasted time, you lost the time.  If you wasted money, you lost the money.  You lost the potential.  You lost what COULD have been.

Now imagine you take time to plant beautiful flowers all along the street in front of your house.  You test the soil and treat it.  You cultivate and plant.  You water and weed, and as the months of effort go by, you finally see some beautiful flowers.  Eureka!

Uh oh.  One day the city comes along, and guess what?  Your beautiful flowers are actually on city property.  They need to do some work, and they think nothing about completely uprooting all your flowers.

Oh the humanity.  All the time and money and effort.  All gone.  All wasted.  All because you made a slight miscalculation by planting on city property instead of your own, and you didn’t even know it.

My friend, that is what we are in danger of as we go about our lives.

“Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.”

If we go about making life’s decisions without consulting our Father in heaven, we are in danger of planting our own plants instead of His plants, and every plant which our heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Think of Jesus’ story about building on rock or building on sand.  In Matthew 7 Jesus said, “Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.  But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:  and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

If you build your life’s house on sand, it will fall.  It will be uprooted.

I don’t want that.

I fear that. 

You’ve heard of the man who spent his life climbing the corporate ladder, got to the top, and realized the ladder was leaning against the wrong building.

I fear wasting my life like that, climbing the wrong ladder, building on sand, planting the wrong plant.

So I run to the Lord.  I walk with Him.  I submit to Him.  “Show me Thy ways, O Lord, teach me Thy paths.  Not my will, but Thy will be done.”

Only then can I move forward in faith, working to plant all my plants according to my Father’s will, knowing that every plant which He has not planted will be uprooted.

May God bless you today.

I’m Doug Apple.