The Garden

James 4:4 (5) (NKJV)

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?

Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

(Verse 5 - ... "The Spirit who dwells in us years jealously")

The Vision:

I see a small seedling in the palm of the Lord's hand, He plants it in good fertile soil, flattens the ground with tender love, He drops droplets of water from His own hand upon it, and it slowly starts to grow.

The vision moves to a different garden this one is overgrown, a woman is crouching down tending to it, her dress once white is now dirty and worn, she has pale skin and unkept long black hair, she moves away from the light but not from the garden, she is persistent and her hands are constantly busy.

Word:

Child of God this is the hand that nurtures, that grows, that protects, My hand. See each one (each seedling)

has enough, enough sunlight, enough space and enough love to grow. Not one out shadows the other,

each grows at its own pace. I your Father delight in each one, nurturing and protecting, helping and directing.

I am the reason they exist. I AM a good Father, I see to their every need and they flourish.

You see the woman, born of strife and bitterness, she tends another garden, she represents the world.

Dirty now but once she was clean, now she is defiled by sin and has a corrupt nature. She cowers in the corner,

away from the Light of truth. She hinders the growth of those in her garden, constantly she disrupts the soil,

toiling and aggravating, the garden remains in disarray and without order, overgrown and unkept with no light

for the Light with expose her darkness. She does not tend to it with love but with aggression and impatience.

She herself is covered in filth and unkept. She remains without hope and unwilling to change.

So, I ask you this child of God, to whom do you look to tend to your needs? The world? or to a Father who is good?

In which garden do you rise or do you rest? By the hand of your Creator? the ONE who formed you,

who gives you Light, who nurtures and cares for you, who delights in how you grow. Or do you rise up in the

garden of the world? entangled in the disorder, surrounded by strife and discord, tended too by one who remains

dirty and covered in sin, one who handles with harshness, without love or tenderness, one who will ultimately

destroy all that she touches.

Again, I ask you in which garden do you dwell child of God?

Thank you ABBA