I adore acorns. They litter the paths I walk and my toe cannot resist tapping these perfect packages of beauty and power to send them bouncing joyfully in all directions. The life inside an acorn is packed tightly, ready to explode into greatness. As is true of all nuts and seeds, acorns hold the promise of something grand, fruitful and essential to life. God’s word is like a seed that when it is planted in me, blooms into something special.
In the Bible, “word” can mean different things. Jesus is the Word: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.
God may speak a word to a person, for example, a prophet, as in Jeremiah 1:4-5: The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
In Matthew 13:23, Jesus compared the written word of God to a seed that will change everyone in whom it unfolds. “And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.” God’s word brings forth good things.
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His word and healed them. And delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:19-20
Meeting God at the Park 