4 Biblical Lessons From Your Garden Näide

Water Matters

It’s common knowledge that a plant without water will die. Not only does a plant need water to survive, but fruit-bearing plants that receive regular soakings are stronger and produce both more fruit and sweeter fruit!

So it is in our lives as well. God’s heart for you is that you be like a tree planted by rivers of water that yields its fruit in due season (Psalm 1:3). That’s a powerful image of a plant that’s thriving in part because of its routine access to huge amounts of life-giving water.

For fruit to grow in our lives, then yes, the Word of God needs to be planted in our hearts, but it needs to be watered as well. Watering is the reminding and re-reminding of a Truth until the point in time when Truth has taken root and is beginning to grow and shape the very nature of our life.

“I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God’s field in which we are working.” 1 Cor 3:6 MSG

Let’s be encouraged to both plant and water God’s Word, but without forgetting that God Himself is at the center of this process. He alone is doing the work of bringing forth fruit in our lives. He desires for us to bear fruit 30, 60, and even 100 times what was sown!