Calling Gardening

Calling

Gardening

I hope you like gardening if you want to know what your Calling is

God created all the amazing plants, animals, fish, birds and wonderful insects

God takes pleasure in His creation

At the end of each day God stood back and took pleasure as He looked and watched the very things He created and said, “It is good”

How many times have you enjoyed peacefully looking at a sunset

Or sat by the water’s edge

How much joy, how much pleasure has God’s creation given you

Shouldn’t the words of the Palmist be our words in those moments

 May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in his works — 

If we are ever to fulfill our Calling of ruling over the earth

We will have to start with ourselves

We need to get the message out that the Creator of heaven and earth

Is worthy of praise

We need to do the things that will cause Him to rejoice in His works  

Take time each evening to take a pleasurable walk with Him

Gardening

I hope you like gardening if you

want to know what your Calling is.

God created all the amazing plants, animals,

fish, birds and wonderful insects.

God takes pleasure in His creation.

At the end of each day, God stood back and

took pleasure as He looked and watched the

very things He created and said, “It is good”.

If you have ever given birth or as a father

held your new born baby in your arms…

 You get an idea of the overwhelming joy

and pleasure God experienced at

the end of each day of creation.

Psalms 104 is 35 verses of breathtaking

words of the Psalmist’s amazement of the

earth and skies God had created.

  

In verse 31 he says…

May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in his works — 

How many trips have you taken,

how many movies or pictures have you seen

of the amazing things in this world?

How many times have you enjoyed peacefully

looking at a sunset or sat by the water’s edge?

How much joy, how much pleasure

has God’s creation given you?

Shouldn’t the words of the Palmist

be our words in those moments…

 May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in his works —

 

Shouldn’t we recognize the glory

of God and want to see it increase?

When I am in Florida enjoying sand, trees,

water, and the living things all around

me, I don’t want it to ever end.

Shouldn’t my prayer be…

 “Lord let your glory endure forever”.

Shouldn’t my prayer be…

 “God rejoice in your work”.  

Many times as I sit in wonder as

the glory of God surrounds me…

With His created things I think…

 This joy, this peace, this purity of the

moment, is not the case in other places.

God’s glory is there…

 But hatred, abuse, war, and busyness

 blind eyes to see God’s glory.

Our desire to see God enjoy His

creation turns to self-gratification.

In the beginning God placed Adam

and Eve in the garden to care for it.

Genesis 2:15 

God gave humans a very

special place in His creation.

A place of sufficiency.

 They could eat of all the trees

with the exception of one.

 The earth was full of minerals from stones to gold.

God gave them ownership.

 They could name the animals whatever they wanted.

After God had blessed them,

 God called Adam and Eve to…

 “be fruitful, multiply”, “fill, replenish the earth”,

 “subdue, control, keep things in proper place”,

“take dominion, fulfill the responsibility of keeping order”

 

God blessed them and said to them, 

"Be fruitful and increase in number; 

fill the earth and subdue it. 

Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and 

over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Genesis 1:28

According to the Psalmist of Chapter 24…

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it.

The earth still belongs to the Lord.

 He is the King of glory.

But we are called to rule for Him in the earth.

Our prayer should be…

 “Thy Kingdom come, they will be done

in earth as it is in heaven”.

Our Calling is not a gift to do with as we want.

Our gift is to line up with the

glory God created things with.

Our Calling it to see…

 “The LORD rejoice in His works”.

 

That His glory endures forever in all the earth.

God made the earth forgiving,

just like He is forgiving.

I remember when lake Erie was declared dead.

No one had hope of its returning back to life.

But God flushed it and brought in zebra mussels.

 Stand on the shore of the ocean and

recognize how large is our God.

 Than look at the smallest grain of sand

and know God made it, too.

You are called to recognize the large and the small.

 Everything matters to our God who created it.

If we are ever to fulfill our Calling

of ruling over the earth, we will

have to start with ourselves.

We need to get the message out that the

Creator of heaven and earth is worthy of praise.

We need to do the things that will

cause Him to rejoice in His works.

  

Take time each evening to take

a pleasurable walk with Him.

Scripture Reading

Psalm 104:31 NIV

31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in his works — 

Genesis 1:28 NIV

28 God blessed them and said to them, 

"Be fruitful and increase in number; 

fill the earth and subdue it. 

Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and 

over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Psalm 24:1 NIV

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it,

 the world, and all who live in it