We often walk about wanting things but failing to recognize the things we have on hand. Never have we had people use more but feel less. We question the things we should not be questioning and measure our faith against the things of the world. We measure our worth with things seen and forsake the metrics set by God. In the coming to be, we lose the essence of God trying to pursue the things of the world. When ordinarily we should not even counter what we are, but we find it easier to operate outside of our identity. When creator creates, we ought to be creating but we change our nature and fill in roles of the consumer.
Part of some of the social issues we have is that we consume more than we create, creating an imbalance not only for ourselves but for those around us too. It’s in birds’ nature to fly but if they spend most of their time walking on land, they will be devoured by dogs and other walking creatures. There is unique ability to fly is not only in their nature but its protective too. It is human beings that have stopped operating in their nature, causing the imbalance at an authoritative level. The authority of humans is to have dominion and to be fruitful (Genesis 1:26). We have, at an authoritative position, traded our Godly authority and have now become passive. We are waiting to be told who we are by sources outside of the God’s will, when all of creation points to you as the garden tender. We called to tend a garden and often we forget that to tend a garden, you need gentle hands and a kind spirit. Flowers that are not picked grow. They naturally grow.
One of the things human beings still can’t do is the ability to change seasons meaning that only God holds the pen to all of life. And if the pen is still in God’s hands and so are all things in heaven and earth, we need to submit to the purpose of all of creation.
Watering gardens look different for everyone, but the purpose of watering is universal and achieves the same results – growth. When we create more than we consume, we are motivated by what we create, which in turn opens our hearts. It opens your heart causing us to consume much less because that protects the space where creation occurs.
Honoring our inherent nature requires that we honor the essence and processes of life and the ability to do what we have with what we given. Creating is tending your garden, the more you pour into it, the more it opens you up and opens the plant itself.
