When I think about the blessings in my life, I wonder, how many of them would be here today if I had not been open to their "arrival"? If you consider a garden, it takes sun and soil and rain and seed to bring forth growth. When any of these elements are missing, the garden cannot reach its full potential. Even if a bird drops the seed, the sun comes and the rains fall, but the soil is not prepared to receive the blessing of growth, the seed will never bear fruit.
Today, in a section of Isaiah commonly called his Second Song, we see God's word compared to the rain and snow which falls and waters the earth. Isaiah says that these things don't come to us with the expectation that nothing will come of them. The intent is for them to bring life, growth, fruit and nourishment.
So, we need to prepare our hearts and our lives for the full measure of blessings available to us every day. By spending just a little time each day in fellowship with God through praise and thanksgiving, we make ourselves fertile ground for the blessings which will surely fall our way...and our lives become rich, verdant, abundant gardens of beauty!
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Isaiah 55:6-11
"For as rain and snow fall from the heavens and return not again, but water the earth,bringing forth life and giving growth, seed for sowing and bread for eating, so is my word that goes forth from my mouth; it will not return to me empty;but it will accomplish that which I have purposed, and prosper in that for which I sent it."
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