Ok you all know how I love to laugh at myself but this is a new level. Just now, I’m sitting at my dining room table with my Bible open, study materials spread out, laptop ready… looking like a whole Proverbs 31 meets seminary aesthetic.

And I looked up at the plant in the center of the table. I noticed a little brown at the tips of a few of the leaves.

And my first thought was: “Have I watered this enough?”

It is a fake plant.

Plastic. Polyester. Sanctified Hobby Lobby foliage.

And I was concerned about whether it was dehydrated.

I had a good laugh over it but conviction still hit because God just loves to teach me lessons through my own nonsense!

Because how often do we do that spiritually?

We worry about tending things that are not alive.

We stress over optics. We manage appearances. We trim the edges of things that have no root system.

We’ll monitor how things look before we examine whether something is actually alive.

Jesus said you’ll know a tree by its fruit… not by how symmetrical the leaves are.

You can’t water fake into fruitfulness. You can’t nurture what has no root. And you can’t revive something that was never alive to begin with.

And sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is laugh at yourself and ask: Am I tending something fake while neglecting something living?

Because some things in our lives only need dusting and other things need watering and discernment is knowing the difference.

Anyway.

I did not water the plant.