A Weed by Any Other Name

This weed is in a ditch by the road. It appears to have no purpose, no reason for being there.  It’s just there.  It’s a weed.

This is how we see some people.  This is how we sometimes see ourselves.  No purpose.  No reason to be alive.  Just there.

But God saw fit to give this weed purpose. He gave it delicate pink flowers, unique to itself. They stand in defiance of their name.  Their God-given beauty insists that they matter.

But God…  Those words change everything.  If you do a search of the Bible for those words together, you will find them more than 60 times.  Each instance involves a paradigm change.  Each instance brings a powerful truth previously unknown.

The same is true of the people around us.  The same is true about us.  Where there seems to be no purpose, but God… Where there seems to be no reason to live,  but God…  Where a world-given identity amounts to nothing more than a weed, but God…

“So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”  Galatians 4:7