Picture your heart as your garden. Your garden, with its rich soil, is all churned and ready for planting. In your greenhouse, sitting right next to your garden, are tables with little seedling pots bursting full of new life!
What seeds are you planting?
Galatians 6:7 ESV: “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”
We can plant seeds of hope, truth, patience, forbearing, positive energy, faith, joy, trust, and peace. These seeds will produce a bounty of beautiful flowers and vegetables.
OR
We can plant seeds of anger, frustration, lies, cheating, gossip, backbiting, doubt, sadness, and discontent. These will produce a garden of life-choking weeds.
Matthew 12:33 NIV: “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.”
How do you think people view you? Do they instantly picture you with a smile or a scowl? What about your overall outlook? Is your glass half full or is it almost empty? Is it a brand-new day or is it just another day?
Our hearts and thoughts need daily work and cultivating like any garden or flower bed. Constant care and upkeep, pulling weeds, plucking off dead leaves and blooms, hoeing and watering.
Are you clipping, pulling up, and discarding negative thoughts? Tossing harbored hurts, resentments, and old ugly memories into the burn pile?
Are you watering with prayer, scripture, fellowship, teachings, and devotions, determined to fertilize with positive, upbeat thoughts and motivation?
Because of the internet, we can google any word, put scripture behind it, and receive God’s word and direction for our lives. Today, you can sit and watch church from home in your pajamas. You can go to any bookstore and find a plethora of Christian-based books to read and or listen to! Remember, we aren’t traveling these bi-ways alone.
Two books I would highly recommend to start your seedling process are Joyce Meyers’s “Battlefield of the Mind” and Sarah Young’s “Jesus Calling.” These are two entirely different reads, and both are so beneficial.
Hosea 10:12 NLT: “I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now, is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.”
Have a blessed day! Spring is approaching; let’s cultivate a cheerful garden this year! 😌
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