Tilling our hearts

It's amazing to think about what God has in stored for those who trust and believe in him. Sometimes the way seems hard but it's proclaimed that our latter will be greater than our former. Everything that God has planted will bring forth fruit; Even a plant it self starts off with a seed, and overtime blooms into the most beautiful flower the eye can behold.

Look how a plant grows; it start off with a seed. God knew us before we were even in our mother's womb. The plan he has for our life is started with a seed which he planted in us. A plants' nourishment is sunlight and rain. We as people are really like plants, for we need sunlight and water.

The sunlight is exposed as the jubilant times in our life; a period where things are comfortable and fitting for us.

The water and rains are presented as the times in life where things become uncomfortable for us. Whether it be a trial or tribulation that we are faced with.

I love how God( the planter) works, because he balances both the sun and rain in our life. We can go through a storm in our life that seems it's going to overtake us;but as we persevere, trusting in God, we then see a glimpse of the light, and soon we find ourselves stronger after the storm than before it.

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" 2 Corinthians 4:17

A plant grows over time, one must have patience to see time in which a flower blooms. It doesn't happen overnight(like a rose). When God ultimately establishes us, it's with time... both good and bad.
In order for the seed that God has planted to grow in us, we must make sure the ground is fertile and not among thorns or briers or anything that will hinder its growth. We can have things or even people in our life that's deadly to what God is developing in us. Hate, strife, lying, backbiting, evil,etc, are like thorns, weeds, and briers that grow around our hearts. Our hearts is ultimately the soil in which the seed is planted.

If you ever looked at a field where things are planted, if thorns and briers are near by, overtime eventually those thorns and briers will overtake the field preventing any growth which means no harvest. People in your life, who you may not even be close to, like a brother or sister, if their life and actions are contrary to what you believe and who you live for, you have to be careful.

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Mathew 7:14-20

We must tend to our field, so that there can be growth and a harvest. The same promise God gave Abraham, the same promise is given to us.

Saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 6:14-15

It's often said that patience is a virtue, and it is. Know that thing which God has started in you, he will perform and perfect it; Don't give up on him, but trust in him. We serve a mighty God.

"Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” (Ephesians 3:20).

Let us take our rightful place in God.