Ingrafted branches....

Romans 11:17-24 speaks about branches being grafted into others. In other words, if you have a bad plant or tree and you want to make it healthy you somehow infuse it with a healthy one and it is nourished from this healthy one and it grows from it. This was always for me a bit of a mystery. I understood the idea and therefore the analogy of how we were broken and dying and God grafted us to Himself in order to be healthy and whole. But really, having never been one who dealt with plants or farm things, I never really understood how this worked.

That is, until today. As I am traveling in the Czech and Slovak Republics right now, it happened that I visited some family members of a dear friend of mine. These people live in a small town and have many plants and such. As I sat at their kitchen table, I noticed an unusual looking plant...you can see it here...and asked about it. My friend told me this is a Biblical plant but wasn't sure how to describe it, since ingrafting isn't an idea we talk about on a regular basis. When I understood what she meant I was amazed. Here was a small cucumber plant that had been dying and was therefore ingrafted to a small pumpkin plant. I thought, What is that!?! Can you do that? Well, I guess so because they did.

Now the plant grows healthy and will produce healthy cucumbers. It was an eye opening experience for me and I simply had to share it with all of you. What a wonderful example of God's grace, mercy and salvation that we can actually see with our eyes. I pray you will be blessed by this as was I. Have a blessed day.