While I was traveling I had a friend water my plants. I knew for certain that at this time of year the plants would never survive without water. Most if not all the plants were gifts. Each plant though they vary in color and purpose are beautiful and serve a different purpose. Several provide shade and privacy on my porch so I can enjoy my morning coffee without being noticed by neighbors and feathered friends. Other plants provide beautiful and fragrant blooms to captivate me and my feathered friends to drawl closer and stop and smell the flowers. Still others provide decoration and accent.
When I returned home my porch looked like a lush tropical garden. My friends loving care and attention to detail had paid off. She had watered them continuously and you could tell. To the observant eye you could see no brown leaves from drought and heat, no withered leaves from lack of water, no erratic growth from water and then no water. These plants had been well attended to and given what they needed for proper growth and maturity. Regardless of their color, purpose or origin they all had been sustained and maintained by the life giving water.
Lesson for today. We must be in the Word of the Lord daily on a consistent basis in order to grow properly. If we are to serve the purpose for which the Master purchased us then we must take heed to get the necessary essentials to life.
Ephesians 5:26 (NIV) "to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,"
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV) "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Isaiah 40:8 (NIV) "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever."
Today be sure you get into the Word and get the Word in to you, way down into your root system and you will grown.
When I returned home my porch looked like a lush tropical garden. My friends loving care and attention to detail had paid off. She had watered them continuously and you could tell. To the observant eye you could see no brown leaves from drought and heat, no withered leaves from lack of water, no erratic growth from water and then no water. These plants had been well attended to and given what they needed for proper growth and maturity. Regardless of their color, purpose or origin they all had been sustained and maintained by the life giving water.
Lesson for today. We must be in the Word of the Lord daily on a consistent basis in order to grow properly. If we are to serve the purpose for which the Master purchased us then we must take heed to get the necessary essentials to life.
Ephesians 5:26 (NIV) "to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,"
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV) "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Isaiah 40:8 (NIV) "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever."
Today be sure you get into the Word and get the Word in to you, way down into your root system and you will grown.
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