Peanut Lessons
Have you ever considered how peanuts grow? We get these nicely washed, lightly roasted, sometimes salted peanuts in a bag from our grocer, but I wonder if we realize just how and where these little treasures grow. Most of us think of fruit as something produced above the surface of the dirt, but peanuts are actually produced "underground". They turn from flowering plants into underground seed pods without us even noticing the growth going on beneath the surface. I think this may be similar to the growth we often experience in our own lives. Stuff springs up on the surface - but the completion of the growth is really accomplished "underground" in our lives. Another thing to consider is the place of fruit is sometimes the darkest place! Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is w