The Garden

There was a garden. It was well cared for with weed free borders and a level lawn. At the end of the garden was a fence with a gate in it.

God had been, for a long time, asking the gardener to go through the gate and take hold of the country beyond.

The gardener wasn’t so keen on the idea though.

“There’s a lot of ground out there! Too much for me to handle.
Look, it’s full of weeds, brambles and stinging nettles and you know how much I don’t like them.
No, I think I’ll stay in my garden that you’ve given to me. I’ve got it just the way I like it now and the work is easy.
Out there in that wild land, it looks like it could be a whole lot more work than I can cope with.
I’ll stay right here, if that’s OK with you..??”

Well God wasn’t so pleased with that.
So he tore down the whole back fence with the gate in it and declared, “See the land that I want you to take hold of. I’m not going to force you to do it, but just look at it. I know it has real potential, and you could be part of the making of this land!
Will you step out of your comfortable garden and move into the new land. Just trust me, I know what you are capable of.”

The gardener was a bit annoyed with God for a while.
That fence served a good purpose.
It kept all that mess out of his garden and also hid the view of all that mess beyond.

After a while though the gardener did step into the new land, just a little bit at a time though. But as time went on, he went further and further, trying to do the small amount he could. (Guided by the unseen hand of his Heavenly Father.)

One day, as he was working away in a certain direction he heard someone else working ahead of him.

As he continued to clear the weeds and brambles he came across a patch of land, cleared of weeds and looking rather tidy.

Another gardener ran to meet him, “Hello there friend, I’m so pleased to see you. My Heavenly Father has been telling me that He would be sending other gardeners along to help with straightening out this wild land. I think that you must be the first of them. Hopefully, together we can start to tame this wild land.”

If Our Lord God, directs us to head into a new …… , then, how will we respond to Him?
If we do follow Our Lord God’s leading, will we then find that His help and provision, will then just turn up, in line with, Our Lord God’s plan?
Might we even be, part of His plan and provision, if we are willing to follow, His leading?