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Beauty part 1

11/17/2020 20:01

I want to stay in Song of Solomon for a while. "Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful!" (Song of Solomon 4:1). This is important to me. Because the way we see ourselves is so often very different than the way other people see us. And certainly different than the way God sees...

Inclosed part 5

11/16/2020 17:53

The Gardener tends to the garden. Jesus is the Gardener. We are the garden. He takes care of us. And, yes, sometimes that means pruning. Getting rid of some things that need not be in us. Or around us. Boundaries are a good, healthy thing. Saying no can be a good, healthy thing. Those are ways we...

Inclosed part 4

11/15/2020 17:23

The garden was inclosed until the wind started to blow. Jesus is the sower, right? He sows the seed, which is the Word (which is love) of God. We are the ground that the seed grows in. And here's the cool part--when a seed won't grow you don't throw the seed away, you fix its environment. The...

Inclosed part 3

11/14/2020 19:32

The secret to life is living from the inside out. Letting what's inside come out, by knowing and believing that it's in there. And here's the straight truth--we all DO live from the inside out. Because what is inside--what we BELIEVE is inside--DOES come out. The act of looking for love in all the...

Inclosed part 2

11/13/2020 19:13

We are a garden. GOD'S garden. He is the One who planted it (us) and He is the one who dresses and keeps it (us). Look Song of Solomon 4:16, "Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his...

Inclosed part 1

11/12/2020 16:42

I quoted these verses and mentioned this concept a little ways back, and I think that's what got me fired up on this path we're on about gardening. Song of Solomon 4:12, "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." To me, that just lays it out for us. God put us...

Dress and Keep part 5

11/11/2020 16:38

Dressing and keeping the garden is putting on the whole armor of God and guarding your heart. YOU are the garden. The finished work. That's important. Because if you're coming at this life from a position of, "I need to be better," then you're coming at it wrong. This life isn't about obtaining...

Dress and Keep part 4

11/10/2020 19:57

Life comes at you fast. That's just part of living. But, luckily, we don't have to do it ourselves. Look at Ephesians 6:13, "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and haveing done all, to stand." I like this one even better than Ephesians...

Dress and Keep part 3

11/09/2020 20:19

Let's really get into this and talk about what we're talking about. Dressing and keeping the garden--the first command man ever got from the Lord--is putting on the whole armor of God (dressing) and guarding (keeping) your heart... by keeping it open. Keeping it open to love and not shutting it...

Dress and Keep part 2

11/08/2020 20:21

God never requires anything FROM us that He doesn't first provide FOR us. We love... because He first loved us. So if God's command to us is to dress and keep the garden... that means He must first dress and keep US. Because you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do...

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