O.K. so we have been getting "painted" with a heavy coat of green pollen this week and I had to find out what pollen is all about. It turns out that trees and plants have a few ways of carrying out the fertilization process. Insects play a role with some plants to carry the male elements to find the female. But the wind is the culprit in our area to carry oceans of male reproductive cells to land everywhere in hopes of a small percentage finding the proper female plant. This seems like about the most inefficient mechanism I can think of for reproduction. And we get stuck in the middle of the process, with our cars and houses and noses also becoming unwilling participants in plant reproduction. I have been amazed at how "clingy" the pollen is. The other night I washed and waxed my car. It was really slippery. After a day of sitting under a rain of green pollen I drove home at highway speeds. The pollen did not blow off. This stuff is really persistent to carry out its mission. Of course the analogy I think of is how God's wind, the Holy Spirit, carries the spiritual reproductive message of faith in Christ. He is "pollinating" the world. The gospel is meant to fall everywhere. It has the means of fulfilling the new birth in the heart of a person that is ready to receive the message. When pollen falls on us, we don't spring into new life as a plant. In fact this stuff almost chokes us as it clogs our sinuses and irritates our eyes. We just weren't meant to be pollinated. However, we were meant to be transformed by the good news of Jesus life, death and resurrection. And we, who have been spiritually "pollinated" and flowered in faith actually are charged with pollen-like persistence to be carried by His Spirit. We just don't know when the message will land on a heart ready to flower.
Acts 8:25And with that, the apostles were on their way, continuing to witness and spread the Message of God's salvation, preaching in every Samaritan town they passed through on their return to Jerusalem.
blessings,
Rob Smith
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