IT’S GARDEN TIME

I have very vivid memories of both my Mom and Dad’s parents growing gardens each year. Hands down this was the best food I’ve ever eaten in my entire life. I can still taste the sweet corn, green beans and cucumbers with a big piece of cornbread on the side!

We just recently planted our little garden. As you prepare a garden you plow away the clumps of hard dirt, you soften the soil, you pull out the weeds and add fertilizer before any seeds can be planted. It’s a progression. But any farmer who expects to produce a bountiful harvest can’t spend days and days prepping the soil. This is only the first step. There’s so much more work to do!

“Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?” Isaiah 28:24

God is the master gardener. He prepares our hearts by unrooting weeds (sins) and the clumps of clay (lies) that prevent us from receiving his Word (the seed) and growing in His truths (the fruit). But just like a farmer preparing the soil for a plentiful harvest; the first step of preparation can’t go on and on forever. The truth of God is living and must take root in the heart and then our loving Father will tend to us carefully and with such love so that we grow like a “well watered garden.” It’s a process.

There will be seasons of tilling and seasons of softening the clay throughout our journey with Christ as our Savior. And each time we go through this cycle the dirt becomes a little more fertile and the seeds fall on even better soil.  Our relationship with God, our Father, grows stronger and stronger.

Matthew 13:23, “The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had ever been planted.”

God wants to produce a harvest with you. Old habits and hidden sin

get cleaned up in the process as He prepares your heart to be good soil for the seeds. Are you willing to go through the process? Are you ready for the seeds to grow and for your life to be transformed? It’s garden time.

Love,

Heather & Lisa