A Tended Life!

Gardens can be very interesting places. They are environments where much variety can be seen. However, all that variety is not necessarily good. One very important fact about gardens is that something will grow there whether CULTIVATED or not. Without any effort at all, weeds of many varieties can grow strong and tall. And for that I guess we can thank Adam and Eve. ( Genesis 3:17-18)

The Hebrew writer noted…
“(7) For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces A CROP USEFUL TO THOSE FOR WHOSE SAKE IT IS CULTIVATED, receives a blessing from God. (8) BUT IF IT BEARS THORNS AND THISTLES, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.” ( Hebrews 6:7-8 ESV)

Did you note how verse seven implied the activity of the farmer by referring to land that was CULTIVATED while verse eight did not? The same blessing of God’s rains being drunk in by the ground helps the CULTIVATED land to produce something beneficial to the one who tends it while the land left to itself drinks in the rains only to produce “thorns and thistles”.

This same thing is true regarding our lives. The Hebrew writer had been stressing the need for growth, with a warning regarding those who had accepted the truth only to fall away. The important thing to recognize is even when no effort is put forth there is still something which will begin to take root and grow in our life. When a life, just like a garden, is left alone to allow whatever seeds might blow into it, there is no telling what variety of ideas may begin to take root and grow.

We dare not chance just letting life happen. God has a plan and we need for that plan to be worked out in our life so that good beneficial fruit will be produced. May we be sure the “garden of our life” is well tended so that it will produce the fruit of repentance (Matt 3:8) and righteousness ( Philippians 1:11; Hebrews 12:11). Let us grow as God intended.

Have a great day BEING A GARDEN OF GOD!
Carl

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