Green or Brown?

“As the deer thirsts for streams of water, so my soul thirsts for you, O God.”

Psalm 42:1

While walking around the circle in our neighborhood one morning,  I found myself looking at all of my neighbor’s front lawns.  Since it hadn’t rained very much for several weeks, all the grass was practically dead.  I thought to myself, “At least all of our yards are uniform in color – brown!”

However, I did notice one thing.  The majority of the yards had about two or three strips of green grass growing horizontally across the front.  The tall, green, lush grass looked almost like velvet and was absolutely beautiful amidst the brown, dry grass.

I knew the reason it was so green was because it was growing over the septic tank field lines.  This grass was getting watered and fed every day.  It was getting what it needed to live.  The rest of the grass in the yard had gotten no nourishment, so it was dying.

Like the green grass, we as Christians have what we need to live.  John 6:35 says, “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.” 

When we spend time with God each day, we will grow and flourish.  There will be outward evidence in our lives that we have been eating and drinking from God’s Word.  As we grow spiritually, others will see a change in our appearance.  When we don’t spend time with God, we will spiritually dry up and die just like unwatered grass.  

Our daily prayer should be that when others look at us they will see Christ living in us.  Stop and ask yourself today, “What color am I? Green or brown?”