Day of Praise

Sa, 03/22/14, "Day of Praise"

Genesis 2:15 - "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it."

Watch out Lagerstroemia! Here I come!

A big pat on the back to the first person who can reply and tell me who or what Lagerstroemia is. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Here's some pictures: http://www.google.com/images?client=ms-rim&hl=en&q=crepe+myrtle&oe=UTF-8&channel=browser&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ei=dwwtU4u_GYrMqAHCzICYAw&ved=0CAsQsAQ

Lagerstroemia is also known as crepe myrtle or crape myrtle. And it needs major pruning in the Spring if you want it to look pretty in the Summer.

I think "God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it" (Genesis 2:15) for lots of reasons that have at least as much to do with the health and wisdom of the gardener as the health of the garden.

For example, I hope that someday I can value and hunger for the hard pruning of my life as much as my Lagerstroemia does. After all, unless I learn to surrender to the pruning of God's Holy Spirit through His Word, I will never become as strong and beautiful on the inside of me, ya know, in my soul, as my Lagerstroemia is going to be on the outside after it surrenders to my pruning today!

So watch out Lagerstroemia! Here I come! But I promise to watch out too for the lessons God made you to teach me!

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson