Aquamarine butterflies. Lime green fireflies. Papaya orange cheetahs. Zebra striped senioritas. God’s garden teems with His bountiful garden. Imperial red cherries and golden ripe pineapples. Merlot fuchsia plums and cabernet purple dates.

Nutrients soak into the garden soil, lush for planting. Potassium. Sulfur. Mossy derivatives of compost. Rainwater dives into its substance and it hits the ground running deep into the earth. Calcium and and sulfur drink in the liquid fusion.

Periwinkle flowers await their anchor in the soil beside the lillies, roses, and violets. Sunflower seeds sprout. Honeysuckle vines climb. Orchids reach for the light as roots reach for the core of the earth where the magma boils with passion.

God fertilizes the soil to grow His garden.

“Now this is the parable: the seed is the word of God.” Luke 8:11

God’s Word grows in your heart when you love Him.

God plants His love in you.

God draws you to love so that He can use the love He put you in to begin with. He does not waste love when He plants His garden in you. He will bring people into your life to shower that love upon.

“But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word with a good and virtuous heart, and hold it firmly, and produce fruit with perseverance.” Luke 8:15

sew Your Word

in our hearts

like peonies

in the stars

of supernovas

like dahlias

in the fields

of summer rain

You only get better and better, over time, as God produces more beautiful fruits of His Spirit in you. Your garden blossoms with tasty, decadent fruits that God planted for you to eat of.

“Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.” Proverbs 31:31

God planted something in you so that you would glean from its harvest. You have labored in vain. Your generosity and acts of love are seen by God. Not only does God see your efforts, but He opens your eyes to see His efforts at work in you.

“And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are told in parables, so that while seeing they may not see, and while hearing they may not understand.” Luke 8:10

“To you it has been granted,” Jesus says to His disciples. Love Jesus and He tells you mysteries of His heart.

Glorious fruits await you.

When God fertilizes the garden, Heavenly fruits result.

“Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4

Love God and He plants His beautiful desires in your heart.

His imparted wisdom leads us into the place where His abundance dwells.

“She is more precious than jewels,
    and nothing you desire can compare with her.
 Long life is in her right hand;
    in her left hand are riches and honor.
 Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
    and all her paths are peace.
 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
    those who hold her fast are called blessed.” Proverbs 3:15-18

Hear God’s Word with your heart.

As Jesus told this parable, He presents four groups of soils. But only one soil can make the seed grow. Good soil.

You have good soil of God’s own fertilization and gardening because He is in you. He produces every good blessing within you that He sets out to accomplish in your lifetime and for all eternity. Those who have an ear to hear receive this good soil into there hearts and lives. To “hear” what Jesus is saying is to embrace what He says and accept it. His words are truth. You possess the healthy, abundant soil of God when you give Him your life. Thus, He will always be determined to grow His beauty in you.

“And yet other seed fell into the good soil, and grew up, and produced a crop a hundred times as much.” As He said these things, He would call out, “The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Luke 8:8

Jesus wanted His people to understand the blessing that comes from letting His Words root deep in their souls.

“Forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.” Psalm 119:89

Jesus’ words give life.

Jesus’ words heal.

Jesus’ words love.

Jesus’ words ease.

Jesus’ words soothe.

Jesus’ words revive.

Jesus’ words cleanse.

Jesus’ words restore.

“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.”

Psalm 119:103-104