Mark 4:26-27 

26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. 27 He goes to sleep and gets up night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

 

Growth may come

 

Natural affection is mostly on the rampage

It embraces wants and wishes in a clear direction

It fulfills self and builds on many feelings

It hungers to be satisfied and despises affliction

 

Feeling good or better is the center of its target

Fulfillment is based on environmental perception

It dwells on the surface and it fits itself into circumstances

As it presents itself in self-contained pretension

 

God wants our love to be in His control

A love that flows beyond our comprehension

Only then we can love our enemy

And pay mankind proper attention

 

He’ll replace the love called natural

With a better without self-determination

A love that just flows throughout of us

Unbridled and free in God’s destination

 

To love what God loves ... is the answer

To love others as we love ourselves

To love unblemished just for God’s sake

So He can move untouched through self

 

Spiritual growth will come when God guides my affections

For without my Lord and Savior I am undisciplined and wild

I will bounce around with no sense of direction

And my end for certain will be classified “defiled”.

 

We can only love God under the Spirit’s power

Far beyond the caliber of natural affection

Worldly power can’t contain the purity of God’s shower

That the Lord releases for all we meet in towards their direction

 

Jan Wienen