September 28, 2023 … Tending To God’s Garden …

September 28, 2023 … Tending To God’s Garden …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Alan Jackson, singing … In The Garden … Poignantly singing of sharing God’s garden of wisdom and love with our Lord.  

Tending to God's garden ... 

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Highlight Passage: … Song of Solomon [NLT] … 

15 Catch all the foxes, those little foxes, before they ruin the vineyard of love, for the grapevines are blossoming!   

… We are charged to watch over and protect God’s vineyard of love and grace.                       

               

Highlight Passage (Context): … Song of Solomon 2:8-17  [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… God’s word, likely thru Solomon, calls on man to watch over and tend to God’s vineyard of love and grace.                                                                                                                          

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Reference Passage: …Genesis 2:15 [NLT] …  

15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.  

… God charged mankind to watch over an tend to His creation.    

Reference Passage: … Psalms 1:1-3  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… Those who delight and follow God’s word will be like trees which are planted near water and thrive to fruitfulness.             

Reference Passage: … Isaiah 58:11 [NLT] …  

11 The  LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength.  you will be like a well-watered garden, like an every-flowing spring.  

… God’s promise, thru Isaiah to His chosen faithful to watch over and keep them (us) fruitful.     

Reference Passage: …  Luke 13:18-19 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus uses the parable of the mustard seed to illustrate how God’s kingdom is like a mustard seed being planted and tended by God’s chosen to become a strong tree in His garden of life.       

Reference Passage: … John 15:1-8 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… Jesus declares to HIs disciples (and all Christians) that they (we) must abide in His word to become fruitful.    

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Pimpo … AT THIS LINK …  tells of planting and tending to a fruit and vegetable garden which was invaded by rabbits and destroyed.  Then the ODB author used a reference to the biblical Song-of-Solomon (see highlight passage), referring to our relationship with God being like a garden of love, planted by God in our hearts, to be tended and protected so tit will blossom of His love and grace and become fruitful. 

And if my readers have taken in and meditated on the linked song and the reference scriptures above, I pray we all are tuned-in to God’s desire for us Christians to abide in Him,  by following His word, to tend the garden of love He has planted in our hearts to become fruitful for God’s glory.

I’m convicted!!  How about you?       

      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to tend carefully to Your garden of love and grace.  

                     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to watch over Your garden of grace, Lord, and to grow in fruitfulness for Your glory.     … Amen

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