Spiritual Growth Requires Good Soil in the Garden of Our Hearts
Yesterday I opened my compost bin and began to dig out the organic matter that I had been waiting to incorporate into my garden. As I shoveled through the broken remains of the once delicious fruit, I thought about how God wants to use the refuse of our lives to produce good fruit for the future harvest. Ezekiel 17:5,6 Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig, 6 and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him , and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs. Every good gardener knows that a garden's soil is the most important component of a garden. In order to produce good fruit it is necessary to plant your seeds in fertile soil. You can have the best heirloom tomato plant but if the soil where you plant it is n...