A Bible Garden

“Some seed fell on good soil...” Luke 8:8

History began in a garden, and there’s a lot of illustrations in the Bible using gardening and farming. We can learn patience and perseverance when we work the soil. Like Jesus, I like praying in a garden. Usually retreat compounds include a garden to contemplate in. 

In the 8th chapter of Luke, Jesus tells a parable about a farmer sowing his seed, and some of his seed falling on the path, some on rocky ground, some on thorns, and some on good soil. He said that the seed is the Word of God and the seed is sown in our hearts. What kind of soil is our hearts? If it is good soil, we will have a beautiful garden pleasing to God. There will be much fruit, many beautiful flowers, and seeds to spread and produce fruit in other hearts. 

I was listening to a Cat Woods, a lady with a YouTube channel who was expounding about how to make a Bible garden. Many ladies do bible journaling, put lots of ribbons, embellishments, stickers and paintings on the pages. They try to put a lot of it, so that when they look at their Bible, all the ribbons and colourful paper clips stick out, and that is their Bible garden. Cat Woods warned that although it’s nice to have a Bible garden, we should make sure that the Word is first sown in our hearts. What’s the use of a beautiful Bible if we ourselves do not have a beautiful garden in our hearts for God to delight in?