Daily Devotional-The Garden and God The Father
Daily Devotional: The Garden And God, The Father
Author: Mary Ingram
“Gardens are important to God. He is close to those He loves when you are in His garden.”
In the first two chapters of Genesis, we read about how God created the Heavens and the earth, and everything on earth and in the Heavens. On the sixth day, God created humankind. Male and female in His own image. He told them to be fruitful and multiply. Their names were Adam and Eve.
Then God planted a garden in Eden and placed the man and the ish (woman) in the garden to tend it. God loved his creation, and He walked in the garden with Adam every day in the cool of the day.
Adam and Eve were sinless at this point, and it was a pleasure to walk and talk with them in this beautiful garden.
There Are Other Gardens In The Bible
There are countless people throughout the Bible who worked in Gardens. Ruth gleaned wheat from Boaz’s garden and became his wife and the grandmother of King David.
Jesus Prayed In The Garden of Gethsemane When He was About to Be Crucified
We find in the New Testament that Jesus often prayed in the Garden. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed earnestly, expressing His anguish and commitment to God’s will, as captured in Matthew 26. 36-46
When He rose the third day from the tomb, Mary mistook Him for the gardener.
God Is The Gardener
God is the Gardner, we are His garden. We have to open our hearts and allow Him to plant the seed (The word of God). The storms we endure will water the crops, and the Son will give them warmth and love. As His Word grows in our souls, His love will shine with beauty through us.
As the spirit blows through our garden, God’s love springs forth into the hearts of others. A message for the Soul of Man that the Spirit of God must dwell in us, or we are not His.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8: 9 (KJV)
Scriptures Genesis 1 & 2 (KJV)
