Garden

You wake up. Nothing is wrong, but it seems as if the world is against your heart. The ever knowing pain that has befriended you. Yet, you endure. Why is the only question.

Your garden is covered with weeds. You till it and work the soil. You pull the weeds, but you know they will grow back in a matter of time. You could spray the ground with poison, but that would affect your plants.

You plant various fruits and veggies in your garden. A few things you hope grow for your enjoyment, other you hope grow for your work, others yet that someone else may enjoy them.

There are 5 different types of plants planted. One dies immediately for unknowing reason. One grows like crazy producing all types of fruit to eat. Another grows steady producing fruit. The other produces, but you water it too much and the fruit isn't the best it could be.

You have no idea what to do with these 4 plants. You don't eat any of them...don't even know what some people eat them with. So you give them away, not knowing what purpose they serve, except that maybe fill someone's tummy and bring them joy.

The one plant you were really looking forward to yourself--the hardest one to plant because you have never seeded before. One sprouts! What joy! Only to find the next day that it has been eaten by some critter.

All the while the weeds fight the plants in their younger stages and you pull them out only for their friends to replace them.

Such is the work and hope in living. It is meaningless. What control do you have?

I have labored that I may please the Lord. That I may see fruit. That I may impact others lives. My results are that of the garden above. So why garden?

Because Jesus said He would be coming back and that He would be taking me home.

I have been given this plot of land. Perhaps nothing will ever grow that I desire, perhaps no one will ever enjoy the other veggies or fruit that I know nothing of. But what am I to do? Let the weeds take over? NO! My hands will be blistered, my back broken, muscles exhausted, and body weak...but perhaps some veggies and fruit will grow to someone's benefit...that someone may find an everlasting home with God or be reminded of home.

So I will endure, but not by my strength.

Do you endure?