Gardens

"Let your gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation garden of your life." James 1 :22b (The Message)

The children's nursery rhyme, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?" asks a good question. How does your garden grow? Do you have a lawn and shrubbery to tend to? Do you have a rock garden, a perennial garden, annual flower garden, shade garden or a tropical garden? Is it thick with foliage and flowers, or is it sparse and spindly?

If you enjoy puttering with soil, shrubbery and flowers, then you are a gardener. You realize color, size and appearance of your garden doesn't happen by chance. It takes plenty of work; planting, watering, fertilizing and weeding are necessary.

Each of us has a spiritual garden within. God wants to be our spiritual gardener, as the above scripture says. He wants to landscape our life to be beautiful- a reflection of His love for us. He plants with His Word, waters with "Living Water" (Jesus), fertilizes with positive answers to prayer and removes the weeds of sin which try to choke out His glorious landscape.

A garden - either physical or spiritual - needs nurture. Let's turn to God and allow Him to work in the garden of our hearts. Amen!

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