When my mother moved down south into Dominion Senior Living in Hixson, Tennessee, we left her house in Maryland as it was for some time. But to access needed funds, the three of us adult children decided to sell the old home place. My brother in Maryland inventoried the household items and we all got whatever we wanted as mementos and keepsakes. I received an old shoe-shine box that I had made in Mr. Swearingen’s shop class in 1961. Inside of the shoe-shine box, my brother had added a few small items from mom’s house. One item was a sealed mason jar with half-runner bean seeds in it that my Granny Whitely had saved from one gardening season to the next. I planted one of those seeds and, to my surprise, it sprouted! Granny had put a date on the jar of 1989! Hey, the reason that the half-runner seed had sprouted was that it had life in it. Paul put it this way in Ephesians 2:1, “And you hath he quickened (made alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins.” Just as moisture, sunlight, and warmth made that half-runner seed to sprout, the blessed Holy Spirit has made us alive in Jesus Christ! Our salvation is bought and paid for by the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ! Hey, have you become part of God’s forever family? Why not make your decision for Christ today? You’ll be glad that you did.
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