Defiant Acts
What is one small act of life-making you can commit to today as an act of sacred resistance?
Jeremiah 29: 5
Build houses and settle in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
God’s command in asking the captive to become the cultivator is a call to resistance. This is not a call for revolt or escape, but a call for rootedness. In a world shaped by domination and displacement, God reveals the sacredness of nurture, patience, and care.
To build a home, to tend a garden; these are not passive acts. They are defiant acts of hope. They require trust in a future that is not yet visible. The Gracious God dignifies small acts of life-making amid captivity, revealing that the fruits of faith may grow even in enemy soil.
When the world intends harm, God invites us to become stewards of life, even, and especially in, places of brokenness.
What is one small act of life-making you can commit to today as an act of sacred resistance?
—Dax Franklin-Hicks