After the long cold winter, the soil endured bitter temperatures, making the ground hard. Have you experienced bitterness and dissappointment in your life? Hurts, unforegiveness, betrayal are just a few things that can cause hardness of heart. The soil of the heart could become unfit for planting. Nothing will grow there if that is the case! Everything dies in its path. The flowers, grass, even weeds succumb to the winter blast. Where there is hurt and disappointment, there is no life; nothing can grow in a heart where these exist. But God does not give up on us that easily.
Everything in nature is shouting about the goodness of God and redemption, if we will but listen!
Where there is death; life and resurrection is sure to follow. Spring and new life are just around the corner.
It is not unthinkable to imagine a lovely vegetable garden where only dead weeds and grass lay. Even so in our lives, where there has been death, destruction, lies and hurts, God has only one thing on His mind; Resurrection life!
The soil is bare and lifeless. How can anything grow here again? Just wait and see. The process is not pain free though!
The soil must be broken up. The fallow ground must be softened.
When we experience hurts or disappointments, we just want to bury the pain and get on with our lives. But little do we know that we are causing our hearts to become hardened when we do this. Nothing will grow in a hardened heart. We must face the hurts and allow forgiveness to flow, softening up the ground of our hearts. Bring one and bring all past hurts and negative experiences to the Lord. He will heal, forgive, and deliver. He will whisper words of life and hope.
Listen, can you hear it? Maybe while you are digging up the hard ground in your backyard, He is speaking to you. “I love you too much to leave you this way.” He says.
The hard ground gives way to the gentle nudging of His words of life and love. “Cast all your cares upon him, for he cares for you.” Go ahead and give the hurts and disappointments to the Lord. He took them for each of us and wants us to be free. Simple words, yet such a powerful message that can change a life. One step at a time, we can feel our hearts giving way to softness. “I can feel love again”, we say. We are no longer numb!
Now that the soil is broken up and softened, it is ready for planting.
New life is just a seed away.
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