Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Holy Ghost Landscaping Company

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. --Ezekiel 36:34

In the right season, there are great possibilities for change concerning gardening. It matters not how long a certain piece of ground has brought forth nothing but thistles, within three days their can be a total transformation. What has always been passes away and the unfruitful ground becomes a place of new life.

Given the right resources, an acre of land that is overgrown with kudzu, poison oak, thorn trees, and snake berries, can be utterly transformed into peach trees, apple trees, tomato plants, corn, and watermelons. All you need is a bull dozer, backhoe, front end loader, dump truck, and a John Deere tractor with all the implements and you will change the landscape:

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water: “I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.-- Isaiah 41:18-20

We are the church of the Living God: We have the right resources. We have the precious Blood of Jesus for emptying of selves and cleansing, and we have the mighty baptism in the Holy Ghost for empowering and harvesting! It matters not how long Joe Smoke has been doping and Sister Delilah prostituting: The Almighty Blood of Jesus Christ immediately cleanses from all sin. He will transform all who repent and surrender all to Jesus, from selfishness to holiness. What are we waiting for?

For to long the church has been as a group of men hired to clear the forest of giant trees, that meets every day on a massive bull dozer. Every day they meet and form committees to search out the best way to move out the trees and clear the ground, all the while sitting on this dozer. There has even been a split within this group as they argued about the best way to sharpen their old single bit ax! What an outrage! What disobedience! What sin! Did I mention that multiple lives were depending on this land being cleared?

When it’s all said and done; it has already been said and done. Jesus has once and for all dealt with the deep rooted tree of sin in our life: “Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). By the planting of himself, he has uprooted sin in man and made it possible for him to be an altogether new creation: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). This Holy seed of Christ, when planted by the fire of the Holy Ghost in an awakened and repentant heart, is guaranteed to germinate!

It is time to change the countryside! The Lord is sending laborers to work in his business: " The Holy Ghost Landscaping Company." The pay is out of this world!

1 comment:

  1. Okay, we've been on break long enough! It's time to start digging the ditches and bringing the material that God can use to build His Church! If You can use anything, Lord, You can use me!

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