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How does your garden grow?
'"A sower went out to sow his seed ..."' Luke 8:5
The seed of God's word is full of life, but the soil it's planted in is the main thing that affects how well it grows; whether that life is nurtured, or suffocated. Are you sucking the life out of God's seed when He plants it in your life, or are you making space to let it grow? If you're so tough and hard-packed the seed won't stand a chance and it'll just shrivel up and die.
Maybe you think you're fine alone and you don't need God. Well, if that's you, use prayer as your plough to break up the hard earth.
Perhaps your soil is kind of superficial; it looks great at first glance, but dig a bit deeper and you'll soon see it doesn't go deep. You know how to talk the talk, but you're not really living the life. If that's you, use prayer as your spade to give you deeper roots and get you going with God.
Or is your soil heaving with weeds, like a messy bedroom, that's such a tip you can't ever find what you're looking for? There's so much 'stuff' in your life, there's no space for God's seed to grow at all. If that's you, use prayer as your hoe to weed out all the dross. However your garden grows, get praying. Plough, dig and weed until your soil is good and God is alive in you.
written by Bob Gass
'"A sower went out to sow his seed ..."' Luke 8:5
The seed of God's word is full of life, but the soil it's planted in is the main thing that affects how well it grows; whether that life is nurtured, or suffocated. Are you sucking the life out of God's seed when He plants it in your life, or are you making space to let it grow? If you're so tough and hard-packed the seed won't stand a chance and it'll just shrivel up and die.
Maybe you think you're fine alone and you don't need God. Well, if that's you, use prayer as your plough to break up the hard earth.
Perhaps your soil is kind of superficial; it looks great at first glance, but dig a bit deeper and you'll soon see it doesn't go deep. You know how to talk the talk, but you're not really living the life. If that's you, use prayer as your spade to give you deeper roots and get you going with God.
Or is your soil heaving with weeds, like a messy bedroom, that's such a tip you can't ever find what you're looking for? There's so much 'stuff' in your life, there's no space for God's seed to grow at all. If that's you, use prayer as your hoe to weed out all the dross. However your garden grows, get praying. Plough, dig and weed until your soil is good and God is alive in you.
written by Bob Gass
