EPISODE · Jul 16, 2026 · 24 MIN
Give It Time
from Morning Prayer with Pastor Sean Pinder · host Pastor Sean Pinder
YOU almost walked away from something that was still growing.Maybe YOU did. Maybe YOU looked at how little had changed, how long YOU had been believing for something that still had almost nothing to show for it — and YOU quietly decided it was never going to become what YOU hoped. Not out of rebellion. Out of exhaustion.YOU were not wrong about what YOU were seeing. YOU were wrong about what it meant.Because in these three verses, a comparison is made between what a certain thing looks like at the very beginning and what that exact same thing becomes at the end. And the distance between those two is so extreme that anyone standing at the start would have written it off immediately — and been completely, catastrophically wrong.Most people never see the second half of that comparison.They quit while they are still standing in the first half.Here is what most people miss — nothing was wrong with what YOU planted. Nothing was missing from it. Nothing needed to be fixed, replaced, or begged for. There was only one thing standing between what it looked like and what it was designed to become — and it is not what YOU have been striving for. It is not more effort. It is not more faith. It is not YOU doing more.Most people never find out what it is. They walk away first.There is a specific detail in this passage about what that fully grown thing eventually does — something it produces, and something it provides for people who had nothing to do with planting it — that most people have never once connected to the very thing they gave up on.The thing YOU almost walked away from was never only about YOU.And there is something in these verses about why the beginning is designed to look this unimpressive — why the size of the start tells YOU absolutely nothing reliable about the size of the finish — that will completely change what YOU do the next time YOU are standing in front of something that has not grown yet.
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YOU almost walked away from something that was still growing.Maybe YOU did. Maybe YOU looked at how little had changed, how long YOU had been believing for something that still had almost nothing to show for it — and YOU quietly decided it was never going to become what YOU hoped. Not out of rebellion. Out of exhaustion.YOU were not wrong about what YOU were seeing. YOU were wrong about what it meant.Because in these three verses, a comparison is made between what a certain thing looks like at the very beginning and what that exact same thing becomes at the end. And the distance between those two is so extreme that anyone standing at the start would have written it off immediately — and been completely, catastrophically wrong.Most people never see the second half of that comparison.They quit while they are still standing in the first half.Here is what most people miss — nothing was wrong with what YOU planted. Nothing was missing from it. Nothing needed to be fixed, replaced, or begged for. There was only one thing standing between what it looked like and what it was designed to become — and it is not what YOU have been striving for. It is not more effort. It is not more faith. It is not YOU doing more.Most people never find out what it is. They walk away first.There is a specific detail in this passage about what that fully grown thing eventually does — something it produces, and something it provides for people who had nothing to do with planting it — that most people have never once connected to the very thing they gave up on.The thing YOU almost walked away from was never only about YOU.And there is something in these verses about why the beginning is designed to look this unimpressive — why the size of the start tells YOU absolutely nothing reliable about the size of the finish — that will completely change what YOU do the next time YOU are standing in front of something that has not grown yet.
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