The Lord has shown a unique way of spiritual growth compared to leaves changing colors into the fall seasons. The Lord wants us to understand we are responsible for our spiritual growth. He wants us to know that our growth in responsibility means becoming a good Christian role model. Our role should be showing the true image of Jesus working inside of us. How can the changes of colors of an autumn leaf be so similar to our Christian growth? Can this motivate us to look and act more like Jesus? Can our changes be seen well enough to change others? This message will show us going from a new born Christian to a mature Christian. The goal of this message is to help us become more responsible with our Christian walk and to represent the Jesus working inside of us, so others can obtain the blessing of the Lord as well. There are two phrases out there we need to know about. One is good and the other one we don’t want to become. These will be mentioned last. This comes from Colossians 2:6-7 “This comes from Colossians 2:6-7 “6) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7) Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.”
Let’s look at the changing effects of a leaf: A leaf begins when the winter starts leaving and spring comes into play. They start off as a bud and begin to sprout out into a leaf. The color of that leaf is green. This is the start of the new life for that leaf. When we chose to start a new life in our Christian walk we are green as well. Just like a leaf, it will stay green from spring throughout summer into the fall months. The new Christian is similar. They will be at a lot of beginning new stages throughout their walk. During the spring, the tree roots draw water from the spring rains and the leaves absorb that water from those tree roots. This is what happens to us when we bond to Jesus. We get watered with the word. When the leaf begins to consume the rain it’s like breathing the air it needs and other nutrients it gets fertilized, it slowly becomes larger and larger and even brighter and brighter green. This happens to us when we allow the word to convict us and it begins changing us. We get stronger and stronger with the word. Then the people begin to see the changes in us when we start shining brighter and brighter like Jesus. By the end of summer, we should be showing great strides of growth. We also should be showing great signs of beginning our maturity level. Then fall comes around. Temperature starts getting cooler, less sun light, and water supply or any other seasonal factors that come into play will affect how the leaf starts changing colors. The Lord said when this happens the leaf has come to its maturity. Believe it or not! We should be now be showing a responsibility and mature growth in the word by the time our fall season comes around. Let’s talk about the colors: Let’s start from the bud. Some trees buds are a red to purple color. These colors can say a lot to us. The red says we’re covered by the blood of Jesus when we accept him. Purple is representing Jesus is placing us into a royal family, the family of God after our acceptance. Going from a bud and turning into a green sprout. Well now that we have accepted Jesus and placed into the family of God, our new beginning starts as well. Then after some growing time, from absorbing the word of God and starting to mature, we enter into our fall season. We should now be showing the colors of the leaf as well. Yellow to a gold color says our Faith and the Glory of God should be shining through us. Our righteousness should be glowing to others. Orange the Fire of God should be working inside of us to do more of his will and not ours. We should be using this fire to help draw others to our Lord. Then we see the red and purple again in the leaf when it’s in the fall. This should say that our love for others should be a lot stronger and our attitude, responsibility, integrity of being a good role model should be well noticed. This is saying we are starting to walk in the image of Jesus. There are other colors in those leaves that can be mentioned but this gives us an idea how our growth should be seen in our Christian walk. The two phrase: The two phrases represent the brown and when the leaves fall off the trees. The first phrase is sometimes we need to let the old fall off so we can accept some new revelations that we need. These new revelations will help us overcome our circumstances when we are stuck. Sometimes the old revelations were a good starting point until the new revelation comes out. The second phrase is an old saying especially in the south. They would say green to brown and on the ground. We don’t want to be caught in this phrase. Why? This means we started off good and then have reverted back to our old ways and it destroys our true image of Jesus working in us. This is not growing, being responsible, or showing a good Christian image. We need to do what it takes to prevent this from coming upon us.
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