Laced With Grace – Christian Devotions

MY SPIRITUAL GARDEN

By Gloria Powell January 23, 2017 Devotion

How much time and effort do we spend in our spiritual garden?

I love to pass by and see lovely, well tended flower gardens. I love to look at magazines filled with pictures of English gardens. I also love wild flowers blooming all over an unplowed field.

I must admit I am not inclined to go to the trouble, nor do I have the patience to toil and cultivate a lovely garden in my yard as anyone that drives by my house can attest to this fact.

But another question; how much time and toil do I spend tending with my “spiritual garden”? Am I always on the lookout for seeds of discontent that satan so cleverly will sow in my spiritual garden if I am not very careful to guard against.

A faithful gardener keeps out weeds of sin, fertilizes with much prayer and reading of God’s WORD faithfully, and constantly adds the nutrients of love and obedience to the Holy Spirit to their spiritual garden.

I must be on constant guard that I do not let one weed of bitterness or hatred, or malice take root in my spiritual garden. I must keep my “spiritual eye” ever looking at my garden to see that all the flowers are healthy and well tended with the good soil of the Holy Spirit and that no UnGodly weeds of doubt and distrust are allowed to take root and kill the good plants that I have let the Holy Spirit sow.

If my garden is full of blooms of the Holy Spirit it will be a light to this world and people will notice the beauty of it.

My yard garden may not shine; but I pray the Holy Spirit will never let me be satisfied with my spiritual garden, I want to let it grow and become lovlier every day.

I want the world to look at my spiritual garden and see only the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Most of all I want my garden to be pleasing to the Holy Spirit.

I believe this is the prayer of every believer in Jesus Christ, to let the Holy Spirit lead our lives so that we will be a lovely garden for Him, and He will shine through us every day.

Blessings Gloria.

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