Here’s some good spring gardening advice from brother Palace Roberts. Palace told me that we need to be careful that we don’t plant our onions too close to our potatoes. Why shouldn’t you plant your onions close to your potatoes? Because if you plant the onions too close to the potatoes, they will get in the potatoes’ eyes, and they won’t be able to see how to grow!

            What about your personal garden? Have you let the world get onions in your eyes, so that you can’t see how to grow? Growth, you know, isn’t just for the young folks. Each of us, whether we’re nine or ninety needs to be growing.

            Peter warned that those who are unlearned and unstable will wrest the scriptures, “unto their own destruction.” Despite that, he says, “Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen” (2 Peter 3:16b-18). Notice especially the first two words of verse 18: “But grow.” No matter what anyone else is doing wrong, you can still grow. And not only can you grow, but you must grow!

            I say you must grow, because there is only one alternative to growth, and that is death. If you are not growing spiritually, not growing in God’s word, not growing in your love for the Lord and His church, then you are dying. Don’t let it happen to you prematurely! It is a shame to die before your time. But Grow!

Time to Grow

by Bob Prichard

www.oxfordchurchofchrist.com