The FatheR GardeneR

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener." John 15: 1

Plants are just like human. It needs water, air, food (Sunlight) , love, care and lots of patience. When it is sick, it needs more love and care, when a part of it is died, it need to be remove to prevent it spreading.

Just like human, We need water to drink, air to breathe, food to eat, love to sense, care to feel and lots of patience to forgive and to be forgiven. When we died, we cannot be left in the open, the germs will spread and the healthy around the corner may fall with illness. We are all plants in god eyes. He show us His love, care and patience, in return we show Him the beautiful flowers we will be. The happest thing a gardener can feel is to see the efforts he put in are showing, but at the same time, it is grieving to see flowers and plants that are dying or already dead.

How would you feel when you put in so much efforts to see them goes down the drain. We are all dying flowers, there are a few reason:

1) Because that we ourselves are sinful in nature, we quench our thirst from the water of this world. Water that brings death, pain, sorrow, hate and everything that is not of God. (Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—) Romans 5:12 (ESV)

2) That we did not reach for the sunlight everyday, we depend on the light that the world shine for us. But the matter of fact is that it is no light but darkest. (I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the darkness.) John 12:46 (NLT)

3) That we no longer see our needs for Him, that we no longer have the passion to bear fruits for Him. (If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.) John 15:6 (NIV)

4) That we doubt our little effort may not be much to Him. We are just small little seed "not even flower yet" (He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”) Matthew 17: 20 (NIV)

But God, a loving Father cannot and would not see us perish.

1) “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3: 16 (NIV)

-That is the heart of our Father; for He so loved the "world" "US" that He gave His "one and only Son" "Jesus Christ" that whoever believes in "Him" "Christ" shall not perish but have eternal life.

"The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1: 29 (NIV)

-That now we are free from the bondage of sin because of the blood of Jesus.

2) We should reach out to God everyday, cause He is our sunlight, our souce of living.

(Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.") John 8:12 (NIV)

(One [thing] I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.) Psalm 27:4 (NKJV)

3) (“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing..) John 15:4 (ESV)

Only remain in Christ, then can we bear fruits for God, without Christ we can do nothing for God

4) (“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, “yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”) Mark 4: 31 - 32 (ESV)

That is the mustard seed God want us to grow up to...

When you plant a small seed, you will notice it and can't wait to see you grow into a flower. Like how I notice the single small flower on the plants that is filled with other flowers. Is our God eye sight any worst than mine?

He love us so much that He put His ONLY son to death for us. You may be thinking, why He did sent Him down? Most father wound rather kill themselve then to see their son die in the hands others. As Jesus bear the pain, so did He. We are His childrens just like Jesus and He love as just as much!

If you try to reach out to His love, it may seems impossible, but if you just try... Who knows, you might the the next flower in His eyes in no time...

FOR HIS GLORY!

AMEN...