Teachings – Supposing Him to be the Gardner

SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDNER

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WHERE WE ARE

Wonderfully, if we can imagine ourselves to be the King’s Garden – soul and church – then our imaginations shall become as rich as the soil into which we were graciously transplanted as God’s children. How do we see ourselves? Actually, if we were looking to Jesus, there wouldn’t be much of us to see outside of His presence, and if we saw only His presence, then we see ourselves eternally blessed. 

SCRIPTURE

John 20:15

“Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.”

SUPPOSING HIM TO BE THE GARDNER
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Pastor observed –

“The wonder is that there should be a church at all in the world; that there should be a garden blooming in the midst of this sterile waste.”

Indeed, but there is another wonder that Pastor observed –

“How comes the church of God to flourish in such a clime?”

And finally, 

“The wonder is that ever you and I should have been placed among the plants of the Lord.”

THOUGHT GOING FORWARD

These three wonders are truly remarkable. First, that that God would create a church after Adam sinned. Secondly, that the church has flourished, first under the Old Covenant, and today, under the New Covenant. Finally, that any man or woman is placed among the plants of the Lord.” Hence, I quoted John 20:15, which Pastor did not cite in his discourse. Why? Because there is an irony that while Mary ‘supposed Jesus was the gardener,’  He was and is, and the saved of human kind are as much a part of God’s creation and nature, as the Lily. 

IN TRIBUTE TO SPURGEON’S LOVE OF SHORT RYHMES

There’s always this question, why?
And the answer is always the same:
God sent us His Son, who died out of love,
and with Him we rose from the grave.