The Second Seed

Verse: Job 12:10 Song: Search My Heart by Brandon Lake

Written by Jessi Drost

Tapestry work has always captivated me.

To have the patience and skill to create a beautiful work of art out of string… amazing!

I once ordered a tapestry piece to hang in my office in Colorado, and would often find myself lost in the patterns in between client sessions. Each weave of the string played such an important role in creating the overall picture. It reminds me of life; how each person’s life purpose plays an important role in God’s overall plan. Each weave in and out of the string representing each step of obedience we are to take. But if a step is skipped, it throws off the whole picture. The amazing part is we don’t know what the overall picture will look like, only God does. Our only job is to trust and obey him in each and every step we take. Even if a simple step of obedience seems small and mundane to us, it could be the one weave that changes the life of another person forever!

I doubt my sweet friend who sent me a sermon 8 years ago knew that she was changing the trajectory of my life (and our marriage) with her one small step of obedience…

Winter 2015

Wyatt and I had one major thing in common when we met; we were both hurting and searching for someone or something to make us whole again. We went from long term relationships (at way too young of ages), to relationship jumping, to meeting each other and diving in head first thinking we needed to have a significant other to complete us. We had bought in to the world’s version of love, truly knowing no different. A version of love that is built on sin.

We were so lost.

Newly engaged, gaping wounds in our hearts, and hoping our relationship would be the thing to heal us and fill our empty hearts; we were setting up our relationship to fail, and we didn’t even know it. We had put each other in the place only God is meant to be. We had become each others idols, and lacked a true relationship with the Lord to know any better. Thankfully though, God had a plan to heal us.

A Better Way

A few months after saying “yes”, the sand we had built our relationship on was starting to wash away. Doubt was creeping in, and we were starting to wonder if this was the right marriage to “complete us”. Heading home late one night, a friend from high school that I hadn’t talked to recently sent me a text. In it was a link to a sermon series from some church out in Colorado and these words. “I’m not sure where you stand with Jesus, but I listened to this sermon series and thought you might like it being newly engaged.”

“That’s weird”, I thought, “I didn’t know she was a churchy person now.” I hit play, and our lives began to change forever…

Through this friends one act of obedience to send a simple sermon to me, our life tapestry was altered! You see, the sermon series was all about marriage; all about God’s design for husbands and wives and for love…

It was the exact thing we needed to learn at that moment.

• It was the first step in aligning our relationship to God’s design for marriage, so that we could learn to reflect Him and His church.
• It led to us visiting Colorado, where the door would be opened for us to live there for a short time. A season where we would grow closer to the Lord in ways we didn’t know we needed.
• It began our journey to healing. To learning that the only person that could heal our wounds was Jesus himself. That we couldn’t put that responsibility on another broken, sinful human.
• Most importantly, it created a hunger in us to know God. A hunger that would ultimately lead to our salvation! One simple weave of obedience changed our lives.

Now let’s take an even bigger step back…

The pastors of that church had to walk in obedience to preach on such a confrontational topic such as God’s design for marriage. The friend of my friend’s boyfriend had to walk in obedience to initially share the sermon with him, so he could share it with Haylee, who then shared it with me. I think you get the point… we never know how God will use one simple step, to impact the lives of many around us.

Trust and obey my friends. Each weave in and out matters, it might just save a soul.

Click here for the link to the first message in the sermon series referenced above.