Compost & Christ
Life brings loss and disappointment, feels like crap and crud…but by God’s grace it can become compost that actually nourishes our soul and causes further flourishing.
Compost is the crap and crud of life—plants, food, waste. Composting is the process of taking that waste and turning it into something useful. It’s nature’s way of organically replenishing the earth—it’s not synthetic fertilizer you can buy at the store.
Composting takes time…and patience…and perseverance…and this is what godly grieving is all about—it’s the better way to deal disappointment.
It’s the way to take our pains and wounds and loss, and then transform them into something useful, even something beautiful.
How cool is that?! Compost is cool.
What’s more, effective composting requires 4 key elements: carbon, nitrogen, water, and oxygen. Similarly, godly grieving requires 4 key elements: turn, complain, ask, trust.
Turn completely…toward God
Complain honestly…to God
Ask boldly…from God
Trust faithfully…in God
Incredible. God’s very creation amazes, humbles us, and even teaches us.
What’s the next step for you nourish your soul with life’s compost?
2nd Corinthians 5:17-18
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
