Deep Within The Soil God Breathes

A few weeks ago I started prepping my garden area, prepping our home and place for our indoor seedlings to begin to grow. As my hands dug deep within the dirt, moving around, sifting and shifting, making room for the seeds to be planted, joy came sweeping in and sat with me in that very moment.

I began planting our seeds, covering them up with the rest of the soil and then writing on temporary cardboard what each seedling is so I wouldn’t forget.

A dark, cool, moist place the seeds will be for who knows how long.

We sometimes think seeds won’t grow from such a tiny source, no light shining through the dark spaces, and hidden.

Our seedlings that sat everyday on our breakfast table, sun beaming through the window shining directly on them, just within a week, we saw green little stems poking on through the dirt.

It was amazing to see how growth began to happen all from underneath the soil. It was life that was breathed upon those seeds.

Life begins in the soil. We must be hidden in Gods Word, in His presence, to deepen our roots and to grow. If we don’t hide ourselves in Him, how then, will we grow? Roots are spreading all along the soil and the seed begins to open up only to sprout as the light continues to beam directly on it.

Deep within the soil God breathes LIFE. He speaks life. Gives life. God is life.

Not only does he care about plants, gardening, and nature. But sis, He cares about you ever so deeply. He sometimes has to hide you to grab your attention. To have you focus on Him and not the things all around us that are being loud and sometimes obnoxious.

He hides us deep within him so he can attend to our soil. Sifting and moving roots that shouldn’t be in our life. It’s all in the soil, all in the hiding, where life begins to bloom. Growth begins to flourish. And deep intimacy with the Lord is happening.

Though gardening is not an easy task, we must be intentional with our garden attending to it daily, to remove any pesky critters lingering around that should not be there. If left unattended, growth suddenly dies, plants and fruits wither, critters quickly evade the garden eating all the goodness, our garden is then left dead.

Our spiritual life sweet friend, is so similar to a garden. When the Lord spoke and told me to begin a garden this year, I honestly couldn’t wait to begin. I have been wanting to garden in our new home since last year, but that never happened. COVID somehow got everyone wanting to garden only to sweep out the whole stores leaving nothing left on the shelves.

But as I begin this garden this year, I have already been ministered in some pretty convicting gentle ways.

If we leave our spiritual life unattended, how then will we grow spiritually?

We won’t!

If we don’t hide ourselves, protecting our time with the Lord, how then will we be able to discern truth from lies? His voice from the enemy? Growing deep roots within him?

We can’t!

In each Lesson in the Garden blog post, there will be questions to ask and verses to ponder on. It’ll help us dig a little deeper into our own spiritual gardens. I’ll be sharing more on this subject next Thursday as we continue our series “Lessons In The Garden”

Challenging Questions:

• Have you gardened before? Whether its a fruit and vegetable garden, or even a flower garden. If so, How often do you garden?
• Have you failed once before only to never try again?
• How is your spiritual life? Do you see any growth or do you feel stumped, stuck, and in the same place as years before?

Verses to Ponder on:

• Isaiah 58:11 “And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden like a spring of water, whose waters never fail.”
  
• Psalm 1:1-3 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he mediates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.”