It is time to grow--body, soul and spirit. And these three intertwine beyond what science and experiment can fully observe and comprehend.
So at Capital Christian Fellowship where I pastor we are planting a garden. Yup a physical actual garden. Dug up the ground last Sunday talking about fallow ground. What new areas does God, the gardener want to dig up in my life?
Fallow ground -- unplowed ground -- if exploited needs a season of rest to regain its fertility but its potential is not released until the shovel digs into it, turns the dirt and trifles with the status quo. That is when the unlocked fertility engineers fruitfulness.
Anointing, call, and courage stays locked away in hard crusted -- fallow -- places in our lives and the water of the Holy Spirit runs off rather than penetrates. Breaking up the fallow ground allows us to soak up the rain, storing the moisture to sustain during draught and unlocking new potential in enduring fruitfulness.
Growing a vegetable garden at church also says God is a gardener and cares about the earth he created. He loves all of his creation, especially, but not only the human part. So as we unlock the fertile potential of the soil by planting we are co-gardening with God and declaring with the Psalmist and the Anabaptist preachers, "The earth is the Lord's!"
Working in the physical is a prophetic declaration of God at work in the arenas of our soul and spirit as well.
