The Healing Garden

Did you know that God provides a spiritual “fence” around you? According to Luke, God provides protection for you in the spiritual realm. “For it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning you to guard you carefully.” ~Luke 4:10(NIV) So, God sends or commands His angels to keep anything from you that God does not want involved in your life. Notice the word, “careful”. When we were picking the materials to go into our fence, we were careful in what we chose to make sure that any plants that we would ever add to our garden would remain safe and protected. God is doing the same thing for you. Remember, we added a gate to our fence to help us choose what goes in and comes out of our garden. We would never allow anything in that would harm our plants. Sometimes what we allow in may look harmful at first, but in reality, is very good for our overall garden. If the plants have eyes to see and ears to hear the tractor coming in through the gate, I would like to imagine a bit of anxiety would set in. However, we know what we are doing by just cutting the grass around the garden’s edge. Even a rototiller would be scary, but our intentions are to remove the weeds in between the rows as to not allow the weeds to choke off the life of the plants. So, what looks bad to the plants at a glance, is actually beneficial for them.

So, think about this spiritual fence God has set up around you. He made sure that He provided a gate as well. I would imagine this gate has a key and there is only one key. Now, imagine that this only key is in the hands of Jesus. He is the one who controls what goes in and what comes out from within this fence. We need to not mess with the gate and we must trust the gate keeper. The mistrust with us trying to do it our way, is when chaos and destruction will occur.