Grow where you are planted

Last night in Bible study we were looking at Acts chapter 8. There were a couple of key verses that stood out to me. Verse 1 and also verse 4. Here is what they say;


8:1 And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria,


8:4 Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word.


First I notice that the Christians were scattered. Persecution was not an abnormal thing, God's people have been persecuted to some extent in every generation and many times the result is the same, scattering. We can look at it as God scattering seed like a farmer. Not that we would accuse God of sending the persecution but since it happened, he makes use of it. He scatters his people across the land and plants them in new places. Notice verse 4, the people who were scattered, "went about preaching the word". That is God's plan for growing His church. He moves us, He plants us and He expects us to grow. As we grow we plant more seeds and they too grow so we are charged to preach the word wherever we are planted and the word is powerful, the word is our seed and God uses it in His unique way to draw people to Himself.


If you have opportunity, plant a seed today.