Lessons from Nature Part 4 - Five More Simple Observations from Nature

Lessons from Nature  Part 4
      Five Simple Observations

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Trees need Bark 

      to protect them from the elements around them,
Similarly,  

      We have Holy Spirit
                       to Spiritually protect us from life around us.

Flowers grow and bloom from plants in many different soils.
Our lives should equally show God’s Power
    by flowering among the rocks and thorns 

        where we often find ourselves.

We accept God’s gift of nature to provide for our earthly lives,
Why do people find it so hard to accept
     God’s Gift of the Holy Spirit to enrich our spiritual lives.

We can see in awe God's work in our vast universe,
Why do we fail to recognize the God's wonderful handi-work
    even in the smallness of our everyday lives.

God Showers our land with rain that it may be fruitful. 

God Showers us with Blessings,

   gives guidance through the Holy Spirit 

     that we may live and be fruitful in Him.

What connections similar to this can you find in nature.
Let me know.

Thanks Be To God

© Lonnie

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Other links to "Lessons from Nature":

Lessons From Nature Part 1     Simple Signs from Nature

Lessons From Nature Part 2     How Light holds us together

Lessons From Nature Part 3 -  The Fingerprint of God

Lessons From Natrure Part 4- Five More Simple Observations

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Lessons from Nature Part 1

 Lessons from Nature
Part 1 of 4

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God presents many opportunities to know about Him, and to Know Him.  As an observer of God's creation, we often fail to see the lessons he presents us.  But, it is so easy to see God in nature, we fail because we do not look.


Share your lessons from nature with me at the end of this article in the comments section.

1. A river without borders becomes just another swamp.
   A life without God, like a river without borders,
           becomes the same.

2. Plants are like people, wither without the Good Water that will keep them nourished.

3. Plants are like people, need the Son to grow strong.

4. Plants are like people, too much of a good thing can hurt you.    Too much water, too much food, too much fun    Too much of anything earthly can hurt or even kill you.

5. God and the Holy Spirit is like vegetation holding the ground in place.
   
   If people do not have God to hold them together   
   Their life becomes like dirt in the rain,
         flowing to the lowest of depths in the valley of life.
   
   If a church does not exist in the Holy Spirit,    Its Holy people scatter until they find it.

Thanks be to God

(c) Lonnie Coggins

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Other links to "Lessons from Nature":

Lessons From Nature Part 1     Simple Signs from Nature

Lessons From Nature Part 2     How Light holds us together

Lessons From Nature Part 3 -  The Fingerprint of God

Lessons From Natrure Part 4- Five More Simple Observations

(c) Lonnie Coggins

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God in His creation, gave/gives us many lessons in nature to learn for our lives.  Click the link for some short thoughts on lessons nature can teach us.   You can share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications.
http://lonnieadailythought.blogspot.com/2011/07/lessons-from-nature-part-1.html

Planting Seeds and Keeping Faith

Planting Seeds and Keeping Faith

Matthew 8: 5-13   an excerpt:

8 The centurion answered, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, "Go,' and he goes, and to another, "Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, "Do this,' and the slave does it." 10 When Jesus heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, "Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith." 

As a gardener, I have learned many things about God from His nature.  It is the gardener that selects the right place, prepares the soil by plowing, removing weeds and rocks, makes the rows as it should be done, and plant the seeds, and continues to nurture the soil and plants.  But ... IS . IT... the gardener that makes the plants grow and bear fruit?  Not by any means!!  It is the gardener who has faith and does the necessary things for God to then take over and grow everything as it should be done.  I just had to have faith to do my part my earthly father had taught me as a child.

My wife and I opened up an old garden area this year where my father and mother grew a garden over 20 years ago.   I had faith that where father had his garden for 40 years I too could have a garden.  I cut my first cantaloupe from that garden today from exactly where he had planted the same.  It could have been sour and I would have loved it, but it was just as good as if daddy had planted the seed.  You know why it was sweet!  God had grown that cantaloupe for me just as he had done for my father,  I just had to have faith to do the same as my father would have done.

Just as the Centurion had faith in Jesus to heal, he did his part by humbly coming to Jesus for what Jesus could do in his life.

How often we fail to see the need for greater faith in our own life such as faith like the Centurion had in his.  It is through the Holy Spirit God grows our faith, as we are pretty helpless to do so for our selfish selves.

To have the Holy Spirit in your life, we must pray, and pray and pray everyday; share our faith with others, plant seed and bring others to the Faith, believe as the Centurion, "stand still" and watch what God can do in and for your life (Exodus 14:12-14).
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My earthly father taught me more than a bit of gardening skill, in his own private way he set the example depending on our Heavenly Father.  Amen.