A Fruitful Harvest : He Plans

In my last post we looked at how God is the Master Gardener and how He  is intimately involved with every part of seeing us, His plants, grow, mature and produce fruit.

So now I want to talk about the steps a gardener takes in making and tending a garden.  Because a fruitful, bountiful harvest doesn’t just happen all on it’s own.

 1.  HE PLANS

In her book Time Began in a Garden, Emilie Barnes wrote:

“Long before the first piece of sod is turned, long before the seeds are ordered or the plants are purchased or the first buds begin to open, the garden takes root in the mind, the heart and the imagination of the gardener.  And even after a garden has begun, it continues to be fed from the gardener’s dreams” 

The garden all begins in the heart and the mind of the gardener.  He has a plan.

Likewise….God has a plan:

Eph. 1:4  He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,  In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

Jer. 29:11  'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Psa. 33:8  The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation. 

Isa. 25:1  O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

Eph. 2:10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Psa. 139 .   For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.   I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.

--Each plant has its own purpose –all are made by God and are different and unique...all fit 

    together for His purposes.

Never forget...

~He is the designer..

~He has the plan...

~His plans are always right and good and come together to    

   create a thing of beauty that brings honor to Him.

                      “The planting of the Lord that He may be glorified” Is. 61:3