Soil For Our Soul!
"The Lord God
planted a garden."
Genesis 2: 8
Faith is the soil in which all our other virtues grow.
In 2 Peter 1:5-7, we’re told to have soul soil of faith
and to let it produce increasing amounts of virtue,
knowledge, self-control, perseverance,
godliness,
brotherly kindness, and love.
If you’ve done any gardening, you know
weeds come up
naturally, but crops and
flowers have to be cultivated.
Adam and Eve were given task of tending the
Garden of Eden, and we’re charged with tending
to our own souls under the watchful care of the
Master Gardener (John
15:1).
A preacher of yesterday, Mark Guy Pearse,
said, “Gardens are made out of waste places.
Before the King can make a garden, He
must
own the land…. But if it be the King’s garden
the King Himself will come to it.”
Be fruitful daily! Once we believe and have
faith, we must devote ourselves to growing
deeper in that faith, abiding in Christ,
being
fruitful, and producing the other virtues God
loves.
Jesus says to us, “My
son, give
Me thine heart.” He wants the
heart, not because it is a garden,
but that He may make a King’s
garden of it.
Mark Guy Pearse