What we can learn about the fruitful Christian life from our drip line, part 1: individual grains of salt and individual lamps.

Each emitter delivers water to a small area: the soil directly under and immediately adjacent to it. But cumulatively they have a big impact; we produce an average of 13,500 pounds of produce every summer and all of that is irrigated by individual emitters. 

That brings to mind Jesus’ teaching about individual believers being salt and light recounted at Matthew 5:13-16. Each grain of salt only impacts the area it directly contacts and each lamp only illuminates the area in its immediate vicinity. But Jesus values each one for the good each produces in its individual space and the huge impact we believers cumulatively have when we faithfully follow Jesus’ example. 

So don’t be discouraged by the state of the world at large. Just trust in the Lord and do the good you can.  God will bless you and others through that.