Good Soil

From little things, Big things grow....

We have reached a stage of wanting to grow things again (despite living in a rented house with very little in the way of garden). A man can only walk across a prickle infested lawn so many times before he is compelled by the pain in His feet to do something about it! Weeds flourish when good people do nothing. And the best way to combat weeds is to encourage the healthy growth of the desired plants.

Isaiah 58:11 
The Lord will guide you always;
    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
    and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
    like a spring whose waters never fail.

We have been watering flat out with the hose to keep the sun from scorching struggling grass but the weeds don't struggle at all weeds are strong plants and not fussy they will grow anywhere most of them, good plants are fragile and need a lot of care and attention in order to produce a verdant verge or a vibrant vege patch.

It all starts with good soil. Good soil doesn't just appear it is built over years by lots of dead orgainic material merging into it and natural fertilizer from animals be it manure or their rotten carcasses(blood and bone) all this rotten stuff is broken down by microbes and rendered from something offensive and unattractive into something that becomes a life giving medium for an new generation of living thing by producing plants which are then eaten by animals and so on up the food chain. Dead things once above ground eventually circum to death and decay falling to the ground they are absorbed and converted into the various minerals and raw materials need by plants to build their growing forms. Soil that is no good has no life in it.

Something good has to die before there can be life in the soil.

Christians need to offer up their lives as Christ has done, in order for good spiritual soil to be prepared. And this as well as sowing the word of God and watering it will produce a fruitful harvest.

Rev12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.