Do you like to garden? Does it feel good to get your hands dirty, digging in the soil to plant vegetables or flowers? Do you like tending to the plants, fertilizing and watering them? Have you considered how that applies to your faith?
Planting and tending to a vegetable garden takes time and energy. Many do not have such gardens because of the investment required. The same is true, to a lesser extent, with flower gardens and flowerpots. They don’t require quite as much time but do require some.
The Apostle Paul uses the analogy of planting and watering for explaining the growth of the church and the members faith. Though he was speaking nearly two-thousand years ago, the analogy still holds true today. Our faith needs to be tended by pastors and teachers.
Because our faith needs to be tended to, we need to be in worship services whenever we can. We need to participate in Bible studies. The more we can interact with and hear God’s Word through teachers who have studied it, the more God can grow our faith. Make no mistake, it is not all about knowledge. However, the more knowledge we have, the deeper our faith can grow.
How can we help ourselves? First, we can read God’s Word. Second, we should pray as we are heading to worship services and Bible studies. We should ask God to open our hearts and minds to understand what he wants us to understand. We should ask God to deepen our faith through them.
I pray we all strive to be in worship services and Bible studies. I pray we read God’s Word. I pray each one of us will pray that God deepens our faith through worship and Bible studies. Go to worship services. Participate in Bible studies. Ask God to reveal his understanding to you.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
Marty Pressey 