The Garden of Your Mind by Charles David Heineke. Berean Bible Church: The Law of the Harvest - Galatians 6:7-10. Delivered 08/05/2005 God has established some natural principles in His universe that are unbending.
Certain things happen with consistency. When Isaac Newton observed an apple falling from a tree, it struck him that an apple never fell upwards. It was always being pulled downward. Thus we had the recognition of the law of gravity. God has written natural laws into His creation such as the "Laws of Gravity" or the "Laws of Thermodynamics. " All of us are feeling the effects of the second law of thermodynamics even as you sit here this morning. Just as there are laws of nature that govern the universe, there are also moral and spiritual laws that God has written into His creation.
Galatians 6:7 (NASB) Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. We know that this is certainly true in agriculture. How many times do you suppose a farmer goes out in the fall thinking to himself, "I wonder what we are going to harvest this year? " How do we mock God? The Law of the Harvest - New Era Oct. 1980 - new-era. Living the Lord’s laws guarantees an abundant life I often marvel as I read the life of the Savior how many times the Lord used the tilling of the soil as an example in his teachings.
Do you remember the parable of the sower as taught in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 4? “And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. “And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, “Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: “And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. “And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: “But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. “And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
The Law of the Harvest – Howard W. Hunter - Latter-day Conservative. The Law of the Harvest: As a Man Sows, So Shall He Reap.
Elder Howard W. Hunter. BYU Devotional. March 8, 1966. My dear brothers and sisters, what an inspiration and thrill it is to be with you on this occasion. Who is Tending your Mind Garden? By Dennis Merritt Jones, D.D.Author of THE ART OF BEING, 101 Ways To Practice Purpose In Your Life This morning I stepped out onto our second story balcony and noticed one of our herbal flower boxes had become host to one of the largest weeds I have ever seen (“in captivity”).
We are talking major league weed...as large as a rosebush probably could have pruned it and kept it as my prize plant. So large was this weed that it had taken over the entire box, chocking out the fragile herbs recently planted by my wife. I thought to myself; how on earth could a weed like this become rooted in a second story flower box, and then grows to this proportion? The answer to how it got there is simple: Either the “seed of the weed” somehow became commingled with the herbal seeds, a bird dropped it, or perhaps the wind simply blew it into the flower box. The action you and I need to take is clear isn’t it? © 2003 by Dennis Merritt Joneswww.DennisMerrittJones.com. Inspirational Article - Your mind is a garden. How to Turn Your Mind into a Beautiful Garden Some time ago, Sofan and I were visiting some friends in the country.
We were staying a a beautiful little guest cabin, surrounded by fruit trees, flowers and even a few goats. Painted above the doorway in brightly coloured, flowing letters were the words :- Your mind is a garden, Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or You can grow weeds. Little did we know it at the time, but this little poem was to have a profound affect both on our thought patterns as well as our Artworks. It started almost as a kind of game. How disturbing it was to discover that many of these "seeds" were extremely negative thoughts destined to grow patches of thorny thistles and stinging nettles in our daily lives ! We gradually came to see how so many of the problems and difficulties we were encountering in our lives had their beginnings in the seeds of doubt, fear and anxiety that we were continually planting in our minds.
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