Spiritual Garden!
Verse for Today: Saturday, July 13, 2013
Genesis 2:8 – Now the Lord had
planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man He had formed.
It was God’s design that man should
live in the perfection of a garden which He had planted. The Garden of Eden was
perfect in all its dimensions including size, acoustics, food, water from the
rivers which flew through it and was the most secure place. Man was made its custodian,
worker and benefactor. But man committed the sin of disobedience and lost the
blessings and enjoyment of the Garden of Eden. Even then God didn’t forsake him
forever. God gave him the opportunity to enter into the spiritual garden in
heaven through the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, to dwell in His presence to
enjoy all the spiritual blessings. In the new heavenly garden of God, man regained
all that he lost in the Garden of Eden. Man finds the green pastures and the
cool waters of God where he could dwell in perfect peace and rest in His
presence. Man is not to eat the fruit of his labor anymore, but all the
blessings kept for him by God because of His mercy, love and grace. But it is
imperative that man appropriates all these heavenly blessings by faith and
enjoy it. Man thus has the privilege to enjoy God’s best to the brim. Only
those who enter through Jesus will ever reach the heavenly garden of perfect
spiritual blessings. The blessings are available to them by faith only. It
gives them confident living with full trust in God and His promises.
Unfortunately a lot of people lose track of the extent of the richness of these
blessings because their eyes become dim as they gaze at the seemingly attractive
mirages of the Vanity Fair. Today we have the privilege to enter the dwelling
place of our Lord to appropriate and enjoy all His resources to meet all our
emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs.
Dear reader, are you experiencing
dissatisfaction and bitterness in life as you search and seek after contentment?
Are you deeply frustrated and distressed about the lack of satisfaction that
you experience in life? Remember, there is no scope for true satisfaction in
this world which is full of conflicts, competition, corruption, decay, pain,
misery, cheating and failures. The world can only bewilder us and make our
lives hopeless and worthless, with a false sense of achievement. The world
gives us lukewarm water from its broken cisterns which will only increase our
thirst and make us sick in our souls. But we do not need to wallow in the
corridors of world’s false promises and live a bitter life of ever increasing
discontent. Jesus has opened a way for us to enter into His presence and live
in the richness of the glories of heaven. It is like a garden with all the
goodness that we crave. God’s presence will take away our fears, anxieties,
hopelessness, purposelessness and discontent and fill us with His perfect
peace. Everything that our souls need to live a contended life here on earth
will be given to us at the right measure if we seek after it. If we search for
that which will meet our innermost needs, we will find it. If we ask, He will
give us what we need to keep us at perfect peace in Him. When we accept Jesus
as our Savior and Lord, His heavenly blessings become our right which we can appropriate
by faith. Thus our defeated lives will become victorious. Our fearful lives
will become joyful and peaceable. Our failures will be replaced with victory in
Jesus. Our dimmed eyes will be filled with the vision of bright hope. Today let
us go to the Throne of Grace where our Slain Lamb is seated, and appropriate
His fullness by faith and use it to live victoriously.
Ephesians 1:3 – Praise be to
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in heavenly
realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Thought for Today
The spiritual blessings we enjoy are perfect, incorruptible
and immeasurable.
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