Lessons From Nature

I pray about what I should share, and this is what God gave me today:

    Today I was working in my flower beds, planting some beautiful fall mums and getting the bed ready for the winter. God impressed a couple things on my heart. One is this verse:  Hosea 10:12  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. As I was breaking up the ground in the flower beds, getting the dirt all fertile and ready for the plants, I thought of this verse and how our heart should be just like that ground. It should be a fertile place where God's Word can take root and grow and flourish and bring forth fruit. I thought back to the time when I first came to Christ and I just could wait for the next sermon to hear what God was going to tell me. I was so in love with Him I could get enough of Him or do enough for Him. I thought about how over the years I lost that childlike enthusiasm and zeal, and how it had come to the point where sometimes it was a drudgery to do anything for God. Lord, may my heart once again become that fertile soil where your Word can blossom. The other thought that came to me was how absurd it is that anyone can look at this world around us and believe it just all happened by accident. Look at the beautiful flowers and and all the amazing animals and the breathtaking sights there are all over the world. Even look at our own human body and how all the different systems work together to keep it going. One doesnt have to look very hard at all to see that there must be a magnificent Creator that designed this world. Well, those are my thoughts for today...We will see what God has in store for tomorrow.