A Gardening Lesson

I'm trying to grow daisies because I killed my poppies before they were even close to sprouting! Now I am not a gardener at all, so I don't know anything about keeping plants alive except that they need water and sunlight. And I'm realizing that keeping plants alive when they are already grown is not nearly as hard as keeping them alive while growing them from the seed. Just like keeping a fragile baby alive is much more difficult than keeping an adult alive because adults know how to survive, when they need food, etc.

My problem with the poppies was that I just placed the seeds on top of the soil. I didn't know you had to bury them into the soil! (like i said...i'm NOT a gardener). So when the little fragile sprouts started showing, they died under the pressure when I watered them. I expected them to just pop right back up but they never did! I realized this when I was reading the instructions for the daisies...the packet told me to cover the seeds with some soil.

Being the thinker that I am, I immediately related this to our lives. God is the soil. We have to root ourselves deep in Him or we will never be able to survive under the pressures of the world. Placing ourselves (the seed) on top of the soil is like being a one-foot-in-one-foot-out christian (surface level). This is when we think we are strong enough to handle the harshness of the world on our own. But it doesn't take long for our fragile, exposed selves to cave under the pressure.

BUT when we are rooted in Christ, He protects us when we are fragile (He never gives us any temptation we can't handle--1 Corinthians 10:13) and grows us up to have the strength (His strength) to face the harsh pressures of the world.