Frustrating the Farmer

I heard an intersting analogy today. "You can take a plant and give it water and light, and it will grow. What you can't do is smack the plant around and tell it to grow." It seems that my focus has become to see our church grow, and rightly so. There is nothing wrong with growing, in fact, we must grow to carry on the work of God. The problem arises when church growth is th goal. We, namely I, must worry less about trying to convince the plant to grow and worry more about feeding and watering the plant. If we focus on that, the plant will naturally grow. All that will come of a man telling a plant to grow is frustration. Pray for our church, that our goals will be God's goals, and our growth will be growth given by God. "One plants, one waters, but God give the increase!"