21/08/2026
FRIDAY 21 August: GROWING IN FAITH
‘And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.’ (Ephesians 3:17-19 , NIV)
Reflection: Kew Gardens maintains the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, which is an archive containing over 2.4 billion seeds taken from all sorts of trees and plants over many decades. The most astonishing thing about some of these seeds, which are years, even decades old, is that if you planted them in the right conditions, they could still grow into something.
Growing is such a vital and natural part of God’s creation that it will happen in the most remarkably unlikely of circumstances. We may feel as though growing as a disciple requires a vast amount of effort and discipline on our part, but that’s not true. Discipline is a great quality to cultivate, but the moment we allow God to plant us in the soil of love, we begin to grow. Things change in us; the impossible becomes possible. Our roots go down, our branches reach wide and our lives bear fruit.
Do you need to put yourself in the hands of the Gardener again today?
