Tuesday is for Parables
The Lesson of the Cucumber
Tuesday is for Parables
The Lesson of the Cucumber
Once upon a time there was a cucumber growing big and fat in a cucumber patch. It’s life, such as it was, was short, but under the perfect combination of shade and sun, it thrived. Soaking in the sun’s rays and drawing up water from the ground, the cucumber was “satisfied” to be exactly what it was created to be.
One day, the gardener came, picked the cucumber along with a few of its brothers, and gave them to a neighbor who placed them in a briny jar and waited for about three weeks. The cucumber missed the sun, grew no more but remained largely as it was to all outward appearances. But it had been changed. Of course, the cucumber didn’t know that it had been changed into, as you know, cucumbers have no awareness of who they are or rather, what they are, or of how they are changed.
But you know, what the cucumber doesn’t. The briny jar in which the cucumber had been placed had changed it into a pickle. And there, in a nutshell, (or a cucumber jar), is the metaphor that I have not been able to shake for about half a decade.
Let the reader have ears to hear the lesson of the cucumber for the church in America in the early 21st century.
“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:1-2
(NASB95)
Interested comments invited below.
And, please pray for me. I am currently looking for a publisher for a book, tentatively titled, “The Pickling of the American Church.”
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