TENDER SHOOT

In the windows of the ‘Farming Studies’ classrooms that faced into a corridor there were specimen jars with seeds that had germinated, and were transforming into plants, in various stages of growth suspended in alcohol solution. As a teenage student at this Technical College the contents these windows and jars were always fascinating. Although not involved with farming studies, the different stages of growth on view stirred my interest when using that corridor.

To see the earth parting, and the green shoot of a germinated seed, pushing its way up to the sunlight is just an awesome sight. The tender, vulnerable shoots, pushing their way through the earth to the sun, with great strength.

I am reminded of another tender shoot, Jesus.



Isaiah 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (KJV)

Lord, thank you for being a tender shoot in dry ground. Amen.