Restoration

Restoration

September 26. 2011

Beautiful Garden

I love how God has been giving me the same verses this week and yet He is using them in different contexts. Last week, God really was ingraining in my head to "let go" and I have by no means mastered it, however, I am learning that "letting go" is really good. Even this weekend, I needed to "let go" of a lie I was believing and an unnecessary worry I had. I was able to give it up to the Lord and He worked in amazing ways tonight. He took "restoration" to a new level and showed me that it can be a beautiful garden. God can not only bring a "spring of water", but He can bring a beautiful garden.

Isaiah 58:11-12

"And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets."



The thing I love about God is that not only is He restoring us, He is restoring the earth. One day, there will be a perfect place like Eden. One day!! How exciting! He is only continuing us to bring us closer to that place and the more we allow Him to mold us and change us, the more we are going to resemble this garden. Although we won't be made complete until the day when Jesus comes back, we will be that much more beautiful. Imagine the beautiful colors of a garden in spring and summer. That is what we have potential to be as long as we allow Him to take all of the leaven out of our lives.