Friday, August 29, 2014

"I Need" - 07/30/14 - Isaiah 54-48




Pay attention, come close now, listen carefully to my life-giving, life-nourishing words. I'm making a lasting covenant commitment with you, the same that I made with David: sure, solid, enduring love. (55:3)


Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth, doing their work of making things grow and blossom, producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry. So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them. "So you'll go out in joy, you'll be led into a whole and complete life. The mountains and hills will lead the parade, bursting with song. All the trees of the forest will join the procession, exuberant with applause. No more thistles, but giant sequoias, no more thorn bushes, but stately pines - Monuments to me, to God, living and lasting evidence of God." (55:10-13)


Curt dumped out our rain gauge and reported we had received a little over two inches. I was excited - it meant a break for a couple of days from watering the flowers. During the past few years, I have started to plant more perennials than annuals. Once they are established, I don't have to water them as frequently, unlike the annuals, some of which need water every day depending on where they are planted.


I have discovered I am a mix of perennial and annual. As an annual, I need His Water aka His Word each and every day. I need His Word for strength to endure the heat of the battle which makes me weak. I need His Word to grow the perennial roots within me to stand strong "in" Him. I need His Word as fertilizer, root stimulator, weed preventative in this garden of life. I need His Word so I may come back stronger after the season of winter able to grow in the season of spring. I need His Word to bloom where I am planted. I need His Word to reproduce Him in my seeds. I love how The Holy Spirit is the wind carrying the seeds of Him when I am in the season of harvest, so others may grow in Him.

I love being one of His in His Garden.

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