October 25th, 2022

As I sit here watching my garden grow I’m getting revelation.
So planted a garden of greens on my patio and I watched as they began to sprout and grow. They were so beautiful and I became filled with joy. Then I woke up one day, and my garden was full of caterpillars. They had devoured the tops of all my vegetables and I became sad. I cleaned out all the caterpillars and sprayed a solution of water soap and garlic oil on them and they began to sprout new leaves, and I sprayed the new leaves. Once again, my vegetables were beautiful, and began to grow strong. From time to time, I had to spray the solution on the leaves again to keep the caterpillars away.
Our lives are just like those new leaves. If we do not tend to our garden, the enemy will come and devour it. We must water it, pull out the insects, and then guard it against their return. This is just part of our process in maturing in Christ.
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1 Corinthians 14:20 says, “Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.”

While a child might scream or cry when they see an insect, adults in their maturity will either move it out of the way or just kill it. We learn as we grow.
We are no longer afraid of the things that hinder our walk but instead we move them out of the way and continue to move forward. This is the plan that has been laid out for us so that we may mature spiritually. We were never meant to receive Christ and then stop. Loving Jesus is not enough if it hasn't changed you. Going to church isn't enough if it doesn't change you. 

In 1 Corinthians 3:2 Paul says, "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able."
These are the people that receive Christ's love but refuse to grow, but the by maturing we receive God's meat. The substance that will make us more like Him.

Are you ready for the meat?
Are you striving for spiritual maturity?
Are you ready to do the work?

I’m asking you today, “What has been invading your garden?”

Be blessed!
Evangelist Cheryl Davies Owolabi
(www.fearnotministries.com)
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