Guarding The Garden

4/21/11  

 “Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane., and He said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”  And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.  Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.  Stay here and watch with Me”(Matt. 26:36-38).

My mother-in-law was a very avid gardener.  Her garden bordered on it being sacred ground.  We had a old donkey at the Village that I kept about to teach patience to some of more spirited horses.

But Scrape Iron had the unique ability to find the weakness in our fences and mother-in-law was very sure that Scrap Iron was penetrating her garden.  I never convinced her that he was not the culprit even though the tracks looked very much like deer tracks. 

The lesson to be learned, Don’t make havoc in the garden.  Satan learned the same lesson. This is especially so when that garden belongs to the Father.

The Bible is the story of two gardens, Eden and Gethsemane.  In the first Adam took a fall.  In the second, Jesus took a stand.  In the first, God sought Adam.  In the second, Jesus sought God.  In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death.  From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

Satan, through the ages, has been a most uninvited quest to our gardens but that does not matter to him.  The Word tell us, he runs to and fro seeking whose garden he can destroy.  He will do his very best to do a repeat performance as he did in the Garden of Eden but we need to keep in mind the battle of the cross was won that fateful night when Jesus cried out to Father God “Your will be done”.

Blessings

Gramps