Life can be hard-going. Alone-ness can strike. Fear-of-the-future. Uncertainty-in-the-unknown. Where-to-ness. What-else. What-next. What-more. What-about-me. Waywardness. Distractions.
Your mind is so easily taken by other wastelands or gardens that you see and the noise that comes from them – but those aren’t my gardens. My gardens may take a long time to mature but they are always sustaining and when they are mature they remain. For I sustain them.
Look to me in all things. I have all the answers. Why be so quick to look around you? Why be so quick to question me? What is around you that can compare to me? You are in a material world that doesn’t remain, yet I offer you a glory that is everlasting. My glory is incomparable. Don’t look to your own understanding. Look to me. Look to me alone. Look to My Word. Don’t open yourself to the corruptible. Don’t lean into your own understanding. Don’t dress it up with your own wisdom. I Am the Truth and the Hope of all glory.
Nourish your root system in Me, the Creator of all things. Come into my shade and receive my irrigation and my shelter. There are thorns you will be exposed to; you’ve got to grow strong so that they don’t choke you. Care for your root system and water your soil regularly. Your soil, once rich and full of nutrients, needs to stay that way. Don’t allow it to become dry. Don’t allow it to become choked. Weed your soil carefully and keep it well-manicured. I impress my nature in soil! I enrich and cause things to grow but the soil itself must be tended for good to come from it. Nobody knows how the soil causes things to grow. If you spend time with Me, I show you mysteries and things too marvelous for words. Developing your spiritual nature is more important than anything else. Take part in the lifestyle that develops your garden and enriches your soil. Remain in me.
Matthew 13:6-9 (NIV)
But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Others fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop – a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
2 Corinthians 9:15 (NCV)
Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful for words.
Mark 4:26-28 (NIV)
He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain
Mark 4:13-20 (NIV)
Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
Proverbs 3:7-8 (NET)
Do not be wise in your own estimation; fear the Lord and turn away from evil. This will bring healing to your body, and refreshment to your inner self.
Colossians 1:27 (NIV)
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Psalm 25:14 (CEB)
The Lord counsels those who honor him; he makes his covenant known to them.
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