Rev. Dr. A'Shellarien Lang preaches on spiritual growth using the metaphor of being planted rather than buried. Drawing on biblical imagery like the mustard seed and 2 Corinthians, he argues that Jesus enters dark places for redemption, encouraging listeners to see their struggles as the beginning of growth, not the end.
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When you feel like a seed that's buried, you have no idea that you're really planted and that you're going to grow, and that the process that you have to take is taking you to a better place. Amen. And so if you feel buried, then you have no hope, you have no joy, you have no peace. You're just in this place, this cyclical place of depression and why me and all this other stuff. But when the light bulb comes on, you say, wait a minute, I'm planted. This is just temporary, but when I come through this, baby, I'm gonna be amazing. I think about the mustard seed. That little tiny mustard seed has no idea how big and beautiful it is when it comes out of the ground. And that's kind of how we are. So 2 Corinthians, it said, if we are out of our mind It is for God. Now think about it, you've got to be out of your mind a little bit to change your perspective in a dark place. Right in the midst of the dark place, you say, wait a minute, I'm about to come up out of here, right? Consider yourself, you're buried, you got all this dirt on you, you say, well, I could die or I could fight my way back. Jesus said, well, God said, who's gonna go for us? This was a dark place down here. They up there chilling. This was a dark place. God said, who's gonna go for us? Jesus said, I go, I go. Decided to come to the dark place to be buried in sin, to be planted for us.
