Golden...Manure?: When You Don't Want to Work to Find God's Gold

There have been many times in my life where I believed there could be some gold buried deeply underground, but I didn't want to do the work to find it. Have you ever been there? In that place where you're too exhausted, hurt, weary, disappointed, angry, disillusioned, bitter or just plain too overwhelmed to care whether or not good can come from your circumstances?

“Yet, as citizens of the Kingdom of God, manure work is never for nothing because we are gardeners, following the example of our Lord. We plunge our hands into manure, we mine for God’s gold, we immerse ourselves in the slow work of our Lord, not because we are guaranteed results, but because we are inhabiting our new identities.

In Christ, we are life bringers. We are patient gardeners. We are ark builders. We are hope and love ambassadors. We are sin forgivers. We are gold diggers.”