Berakiah Community

When you spend so much in the garden the Lord brings to mind scriptures that relate to what you are doing. the Lord and the Apostles always used parrables that involved every day things. Matthew 13:23 23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Galatians 5:22 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, To bear fruit for the Lord the ground must be prepared beforehand the same as we do for the garden,time spent in prayer and the word are ways that the lord uses to change our lives, we can't expect to bear fruit spontaneously.

With all the rain we have had lately we have had a mountain of weeds to pull out. We have now got on top of the winter weeds but now have to contend with the emerging summer ones. Why do we have weeds? Because of the fall!

Genesis 3:16-18
17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

While pulling the weeds out I've been considering life.Weeds can be compared with sin in our lives. If we deal with sin early it is a lot easier than having to battle with sins that are entrenched in our lives but as it is in our garden when you are confronted with the overwelming mountain of weeds we don't think we can get them out by oursleves but with help we can do it, God has given us the Holy Spirit to be our aid because we cannot do it in our strength. Thank God He does not leave us alone.