VOICE OF TRUTH FOR TODAY
Seeds
There are seasons when obedience feels like loss.
When I married and watched my siblings move across the world to follow God’s call, my heart ached. I feared distance would weaken the closeness we once shared. It felt like scattering. Like something was being taken from me.
But God gently corrected my perspective.
Psalm 1:3 describes a tree planted by streams of water — strong, fruitful, unwavering. A healthy tree does not hoard its seeds. It releases them.
Seeds are meant to scatter.
What feels like separation may actually be multiplication. What feels like loss may be Kingdom expansion.
My father once described his children as arrows in a quiver (Psalm 127:3–5). Arrows are not meant to remain in the quiver. They are designed to be sent.
That truth reshaped my grief.
I realized my sorrow stemmed from clinging — from believing my family belonged to me. But Scripture reminds us: “You are not your own; you were bought at a price” (1 Corinthians 6:20).
None of us belong to ourselves. We belong to Christ.
When we release what we love into God’s hands, we trust that He is Jehovah Jireh — the Lord who provides. His plans extend far beyond our comfort zones.
The gospel was never meant to stay clustered in one place. It is meant to spread — to plant new life where no tree has yet grown.
Sometimes love means letting go.
Sometimes faith means scattering.
And sometimes what feels like heartache is actually harvest in motion.
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Excerpt from Voice of Truth Magazine
“Dim Glass Glimpses”by Rachel Dube