How Does Your Garden Grow?
How does your garden grow? Do you remember that question for Mary the Contrary? If you asked Paul that question around 64 A.D. he would have said just what he told the Colossian Christians, “All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth” (Colossians 1:6-7).
Paul’s concern was not with tomatoes and watermelons. He was concerned with people and their lives now and forever. The people in Colossae heard the good news about Jesus and understood God’s amazing grace. That good news, the seed of kingdom as Jesus called it, took root in their hearts, and grew. It grew because as each believer of the good news submitted to a burial in Christ (baptism; cf. 2:12), one more individual was made complete in Jesus. It also grew because the gospel blooms inside a person. The response of the heart that has understood God’s grace is filled with stability, love, and gratitude.
That good news should be heard by your ears regularly. Your heart should be constantly exposed to the seed that brings eternal life? Are you cultivating that garden that really matters? That’s Life at Work!
How does your garden grow? Do you remember that question for Mary the Contrary? If you asked Paul that question around 64 A.D. he would have said just what he told the Colossian Christians, “All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth” (Colossians 1:6-7).
Paul’s concern was not with tomatoes and watermelons. He was concerned with people and their lives now and forever. The people in Colossae heard the good news about Jesus and understood God’s amazing grace. That good news, the seed of kingdom as Jesus called it, took root in their hearts, and grew. It grew because as each believer of the good news submitted to a burial in Christ (baptism; cf. 2:12), one more individual was made complete in Jesus. It also grew because the gospel blooms inside a person. The response of the heart that has understood God’s grace is filled with stability, love, and gratitude.
That good news should be heard by your ears regularly. Your heart should be constantly exposed to the seed that brings eternal life? Are you cultivating that garden that really matters? That’s Life at Work!
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