It always delights me to hear people say, “I would like to plant a garden”. Having plant and cared for many gardens in my day, I know the amount of care it takes and the joys it brings. Fresh herbs, peppers, tomatoes and the like! Delicious! I always encourage folks to plant seeds and watch them grow.
Just like the seeds we sew in the natural, are the seeds we sew with our actions and deeds for family and friends. We must be a gardener of them. We must water them, by speaking encouragement. We need to pluck out weeds around them, lend a helping hand. We also need to chase off animals/insects that would destroy them, pray over them.
Adam was a gardener; God’s first created human being formed in God’s likeness with an eternal spirit inside him. What a wonderful harvest of huge delicious crops he must have enjoyed back then. Imagine it!
I also like what the prophet Isaiah 58 says…"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, 10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. 11 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
If we follow The Word of the Lord from Isaiah 58, God will tend to us, as His garden!
