Kudzu, especially in areas of North America, is an extremely invasive vine that climbs over everything and anything in its path. It grows so quickly that it overwhelms and suffocates any plants, flowers or trees it covers. It kills them by blocking out most of the sunlight from above. Whatever is left beneath the asphyxiating layers of kudzu dies a slow and gradual death.
Was there ever a small patch of flowers, a few native plants, or even a garden that once existed before the kudzu took over? Whatever healthy vegetation had once existed is now either dead or in the slow process of decay. Without the life-giving power of sunlight, what’s underneath will never become what it was designed to be.
Can our God-designed identity and purpose become so overgrown with ‘kudzu’ (the pains, heartaches and disappointments) that we forget who we truly are? Are we like sheep who have wandered away and need rescuing?
“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one he has lost? And when he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away. Matthew 18: 12-13
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