Devotional From The Sermon: Who Will Care For Zion?

Rev. Dr. Mycal Brickhouse

Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18

Compost transforms what the world calls trash into life-giving nutrients. Dead leaves, discarded peels, broken-down matter—all become the foundation for new growth. This is God’s redemptive pattern: taking what appears dead and cultivating resurrection.

Your failures, disappointments, and broken seasons aren’t wasted. Like compost working beneath the surface, God is using everything—even the painful parts—to prepare soil for something new. The bacteria, fungi, and worms work invisibly, faithfully, constantly, turning death into life.

This restoration takes time. The farmers at Princeton’s damaged land won’t see full restoration in their lifetime, yet they faithfully tend the compost. Similarly, your healing may unfold across seasons you cannot see. But God is working. Beneath the surface, in the darkness of the soil, life is stirring. What looks dead is being transformed into something fruitful.

Reflection: 

• What “dead” areas of your life might God be composting into new growth?
• How can you faithfully tend what God is doing beneath the surface?