Service at All Saints Church 14th January 11am
I’m having a bit of a battle with ivy in my new garden. It is everywhere - crawling through the grass, the flowerbeds, up the fences and choking the trees. A lot of it is relatively easy to pull out, it has long trailers and is only loosely connected at a few points with the earth beneath and, whilst it takes some time, once I’ve got a firm hold, great long lengths just come away.
The stuff that is binding itself around plants or has it’s roots much deeper in the ground, takes a little more persuasion. But with persistence and a bit of brute force, I’m making my way through that as well.
The hardest type is the ivy that has been wrapped around large old tree trunks for a long time, is well rooted and has a really firm grip with all those ‘hairy’ little fibres; it has also grown too thick to be cut with just my trusty secateurs.
I asked myself, if I were ivy and ‘life’ was hacking away at me, would I be like the young immature stuff that easily pulls away from its source of nourishment, often breaking in the process? Or can I say I’m a bit more mature and have ‘bound’ myself to God with a more persevering and enduring faith?
Our Bible passage this Sunday (Hebrews 6) talks about growing our faith as opposed to slipping away. So that rather than being pulled up and burnt as useless, we should be maturing to the point that our hope in God is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. No amount of hacking should be able to uproot us from his solid foundation or tear us away from his strong hold.
If something (or someone!) is trying to uproot you this week, keep holding on tight with every fibre of your being, because God has bound himself to us with an oath that cannot be broken!
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