And the LORD shall guide thee continually,
and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make
fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a
watered garden, and like a spring of water,
whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 58:11
The Garden of My Heart
One day while thinking about my garden,
God showed me how I could think about my soul
in a different way.
As a flower garden!
He said we could imagine that when we were baptized,
God gave us this beautiful garden
(Our Baptized Soul).
It is a beautiful garden with every kind of flower
that He envisions for us.
He is giving us this garden to tend to
and we are free to do whatever
we want with our garden.
When we die, we present to God
our garden that He first gave to us.
I thought about everything that
it takes to make a beautiful garden
and how much deliberate effort it takes
to keep the garden free of weeds
and the flowers blooming.
A garden needs sunshine,
which I see is God and his love for us.
A garden needs water,
which I see is the life-giving grace
that he freely gives to us.
In order to have strong and beautiful flowers and plants,
fertilizer is needed to feed
and nourish the soil and the flowers.
In order for a garden to do well,
the soil needs to be tilled and broken up.
I see this as the struggles and problems
we have in our life.
God lets things happen in our life
in order to soften and nourish the ground
(Our Soul) so that the flowers
can have a perfect environment to grow.
By cooperating with the grace that
God gives us and being open to His will,
we are allowing the seeds that He has sown for us to grow.
Of course a garden has weeds that always seem to pop up.
Unless we keep control of these weeds
they can overtake our garden
and choke out all the flowers that were thriving.
I see the weeds as the sin and vice
that can be in our lives and that can keep us
from being more closely united to God.
We are free to ignore or pay attention
to OUR personal gift from God.
God planted the flowers
and it’s up to us to nourish
and tend our garden.
Finally I see that WE never planted the flowers
and the plants in our garden.
Our garden is perfectly suited for
us according to Gods eternal plan.
God planted the flowers and it’s
up to us to nourish and tend our garden
so that everything God has planned for us
can truly be,
and that at the end of our life
our garden will be
most pleasing to our Lord.
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Artwork from the works of Daniel Ridgway Knight 1839 - 1924
