Guardians
of the Garden
As soon as they hear it, Satan comes
and takes away the word that was sown in them.
Mark 4:15
Looking out the window, Dick spotted
six whitetail deer munching on green beans and other delectable
vegetables the family had planted in the large garden some hundred or
so yards from the house. Going outside, several ‘gardeners’ ran
toward the deer, waving their arms and shouting while Nancy barked at
them like a ferocious dog. The deer merely glanced at them and
returned to eating. They just weren’t as afraid as they were hungry
for these ‘easy pickings’.
Carol, unwilling to watch all their
hard work get devoured by the whitetails, jumped on her John Deer
‘Gator’ and streaked toward the garden at full throttle!
Having closed the distance to fifty
yards, she began to scream and shout, waving wildly with her free
hand. The deer, deciding they weren’t that hungry, bounded
to the edge of the woods. Stopping, they looked back. Carol raced
toward them, determined to ‘route the enemy!’
They decided they wanted no part of
this crazy human bouncing toward them in the noisy green vehicle!
They leaped into the woods and disappeared in the heavy brush.
Wanting to make a lasting impression,
Carol drove back and forth along the edge of the woods, screaming,
“And stay out of our garden!”
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God’s word is sown in the garden of
our heart each time we hear scripture interpreted through a sermon or
personal and corporate bible study.
Satan hates that! And like the deer in
today’s lesson, he sends his minions to devour what’s not theirs.
If we have not spent time meditating on God’s word we can lose it.
We must understand that until we make His word living and active in
our lives, the enemy can and will steal it from us.
But, what if we were to take Carol’s
approach in protecting the crop? What if we actively chased the enemy
from the garden and routinely patrolled the perimeter?
This is the lesson of the sower. God
plows the soil of our heart and sows His seeds of wisdom and truth.
We are responsible, as guardians of the garden, to tend the crop.
Prayer
“Lord, help me guard the
words You sow in my heart that they might become living and active.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.”
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