Psalm 20:2 “May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.”
Amazing how a simple task like staking up tomato plants can speak a message from God.
How wonderful tomato plants are when they are growing. Through the soil, water and sun they get taller and taller each day. As any good gardener knows, they will eventually need to be tied to a stake to support them as they continue to grow and bear fruit.
Our heavenly Father is like a good gardener. He knows how to take care of his people. He wants his children to bear fruit too.
He will send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
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The good gardener
Psalm 20:2 “May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.”
Amazing how a simple task like staking up tomato plants can speak a message from God.
How wonderful tomato plants are when they are growing. Through the soil, water and sun they get taller and taller each day. As any good gardener knows, they will eventually need to be tied to a stake to support them as they continue to grow and bear fruit.
Our heavenly Father is like a good gardener. He knows how to take care of his people. He wants his children to bear fruit too.
He will send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
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Secrets from my Garden
THE SEED
Once your soil has been broken up and softened, it is ready for planting; chose high quality seeds. There are only 2 ways of knowing which seeds are good. One is by trial and error. Try different brands of seeds and see which ones grow well. Another way is by reputation. Ask neighbors and friends where they get their seeds. I personally like to go to an old time hardware store where they sell the seeds in bulk. If you hang around there long enough, some old timer will come in and gladly offer his advice from everything to which seeds to buy, to how to plant and harvest!
Everything in nature has a spiritual parallel. There is a message from God about the seeds.
“The seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”
Be sure to plant your seed on good soil.
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have not root. They believe for a while but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”
Luke 8: 5-15
As you plant your garden, this spring, remember the seed you sow in the ground is a picture of something much more powerful. The natural seed is planted in the earth. Out of it comes a new life which brings forth even more new life. It brings nourishment to all that partake of it. Likewise the seed of the word of God is planted in earthen vessels like you and I. It too has the power to bring new life. It carries within itself the promise of eternal life.
“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.” I Peter 1:23
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