FAMILY GARDEN:
God MADE the first Garden, the Garden of Eden, for Adam and Eve. The Garden furnished all their food, and water. God also planted in the garden the Tree of Life.

The garden in early times and pioneer days of this nation was the main source of food, and often the only source. The garden was the focal point of the family. Visitors often would be shown the garden, and the garden would be the topic of discussion.

The garden was located near the home, and most often fenced with, thick hedges, rock, or split wood palings to protect from animals. The mother of the family was often in charge of the garden, planning, tilling, planting, hoeing, protecting from insects and harvesting.

How well the garden is tended determines the quality, and quantity of the harvest. Many lessons are taught, and many lessons are learned in the garden. Garden is often a metaphor in the Bible.

GARDEN OF LIFE:
God made Adam and Eve the caretaker of His Garden. God has, also, made a garden for you and placed you therein as His caretaker.

God denied Adam and Eve access to the Tree of Life as a result of their disobedience. Jesus came as a Tree of Life, offering every gardener a Tree of Life for their garden. Inviting each person to accept Him as the Tree of Life, and build their Garden of Life around his teachings.

Accept the Tree he is offering you, by recognizing and accepting Him as the Son of God. Learn from the Bible how He managed his Garden of Life, and likewise, manage yours. The fruits from your garden will be a Heavenly home, as well as a life of spiritual blessings, on this earth.

You will harvest what you plant! You will reap what you sow! The thought you have, the words you speak, and the deeds you do, will bring forth the harvest, you receive. The tree planted will bring forth fruit of its own kind, and the fruit will bear witness to the tree. The tree that does not bear good fruit, is cut down and cast into a consuming fire. The person you are, will be evidenced, by the thought you have, by the words you speak, and the deeds you do, just as the tree in the garden produces, you also will produce, like fruit. What fruit are you producing?

Unforgiving thoughts and deceitful deeds will bring forth a return of like abundance. Evil thought are as thorns and thistles in garden. Thru repentance the gardener must pull them up, and cast out daily, or they will grow and produce the harvest of disappointment and evil.

Acts of love, repentance, compassion, forgiveness and affection will bring forth a like harvest.

As an axe is to a tree, so is mans evil thoughts, to him self. Love and kind deeds bring forth a return of like abundance. The fruit of the righteous is a Tree of Life. He who tends the tree will eat its fruit!