A plant is living, it is beautiful and disperses a delightful fragrance when in full bloom! Every Easter, we get our kids a plant, some watering cans or some gardening gloves... something to the effect of gardening!! It's spring and Easter... I just think plants are a delightful companion to those two occasions...I hide each plant carefully and let the kids hunt for them Easter morning. They enjoy it! Then they look forward to planting and taking care of their OWN plants. Such a joy!
As Christians, we are alive in Christ! We are God's beautiful bride, He looks with compassion upon us and out flows from Him an outpouring of His loving kindness! He finds pleasure in and it is His joy to have a relationship with each and every one of us! Our praises and prayers, rise to His throne and are more pleasing to His heart than the sweet smelling aroma of flowers in full bloom would be to their caretaker.
Just as we are given life, through Christ, live in harmony with other believers and are to live a life worthy of the calling... so these plants will be given life in our flower garden, to work together with all of the other blooms, in harmony, pleasing every passer-by with it's beautiful colors and fragrant aromas, working together to fulfill the purpose they have been given!
Not without the life giving water, though. Just as WE need to be fed the Word, and daily drinking in and accepting ALL the fullness of God's living water... so these plants will be relying on us for their daily drink of life-giving water and life sustaining care.
Weeds will try and choke out these plants, try and discreetly maneuver them selves underneath the delicate flower's leaves shooting down deep roots, hidden beneath the soil... so often it's easy to neglect putting in that extra effort of opening up our hearts to be inspected closely, areas of OUR hearts where it would be painful to have things that have become deeply rooted, removed... those sins that have slowly creeped into the normalcy of our lives. From a distance everything looks green, well taken care of and in order... but when up close, those patches of dryness, bug eaten leaves and green, pokey weeds become visible. Just as a gardener, wouldn't stand from a distance to care for his garden, but closely inspects and tends to his plants, God is there to carefully pull those defects out of our hearts! He tenderly weeds out any and every imperfection... and doesn't stop there!! He doesn't leave those painful holes and bare spots hurting... He fills them with something beautiful. All He calls you and me to do is let go, and HE will make us to be the beautiful thriving flowers he has designed us to be.
The sacrifice He has paid for us was severe, and to deny His gift of life, and the tender care He freely bestows on us, is ever more sad than even a flower saying no to the water of it's loving gardener who has taken care of it since a seedling, and wilting to it's death or being choked out by unruly weeds by choice... how sad!
Let's say YES to Him today, accept the tenderness of His touch, watch as He takes joy in caring for our every need, daily filling us to overflowing with the fullness of His Word and drawing out the most beautiful, fragrant blooms in every area of our lives!
Happy EASTER!!
"Do you like MY Easter dress?"
As Christians, we are alive in Christ! We are God's beautiful bride, He looks with compassion upon us and out flows from Him an outpouring of His loving kindness! He finds pleasure in and it is His joy to have a relationship with each and every one of us! Our praises and prayers, rise to His throne and are more pleasing to His heart than the sweet smelling aroma of flowers in full bloom would be to their caretaker.
Just as we are given life, through Christ, live in harmony with other believers and are to live a life worthy of the calling... so these plants will be given life in our flower garden, to work together with all of the other blooms, in harmony, pleasing every passer-by with it's beautiful colors and fragrant aromas, working together to fulfill the purpose they have been given!
Not without the life giving water, though. Just as WE need to be fed the Word, and daily drinking in and accepting ALL the fullness of God's living water... so these plants will be relying on us for their daily drink of life-giving water and life sustaining care.
Weeds will try and choke out these plants, try and discreetly maneuver them selves underneath the delicate flower's leaves shooting down deep roots, hidden beneath the soil... so often it's easy to neglect putting in that extra effort of opening up our hearts to be inspected closely, areas of OUR hearts where it would be painful to have things that have become deeply rooted, removed... those sins that have slowly creeped into the normalcy of our lives. From a distance everything looks green, well taken care of and in order... but when up close, those patches of dryness, bug eaten leaves and green, pokey weeds become visible. Just as a gardener, wouldn't stand from a distance to care for his garden, but closely inspects and tends to his plants, God is there to carefully pull those defects out of our hearts! He tenderly weeds out any and every imperfection... and doesn't stop there!! He doesn't leave those painful holes and bare spots hurting... He fills them with something beautiful. All He calls you and me to do is let go, and HE will make us to be the beautiful thriving flowers he has designed us to be.
The sacrifice He has paid for us was severe, and to deny His gift of life, and the tender care He freely bestows on us, is ever more sad than even a flower saying no to the water of it's loving gardener who has taken care of it since a seedling, and wilting to it's death or being choked out by unruly weeds by choice... how sad!
Let's say YES to Him today, accept the tenderness of His touch, watch as He takes joy in caring for our every need, daily filling us to overflowing with the fullness of His Word and drawing out the most beautiful, fragrant blooms in every area of our lives!
Happy EASTER!!
"Do you like MY Easter dress?"
-My little man
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