Garden of Death, Garden of Life
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
The Gardener
History begins in a garden; in Genesis, in the Garden of Eden. The garden from which life came. You plant life in a garden and so God planted human life in a garden. But from that garden did not come life, but sin. And from sin, came death. What does this have to do with the resurrection? Where did it take place? It took place in a garden; a garden tomb. It seems contradictory when a garden is a place of life, and a tomb is a place of death. Why a garden tomb? Because everything began in a garden. But from that garden, everything died. And so Messiah, to bring redemption, starts where it was left off. The promise of man ended with death; a garden tomb. Messiah brings new life in a garden tomb because that is redemption. The power to take the failed promise of life and bring new life. No matter how hopeless that part of your life may be - do not despair. For Messiah is the one who will bring forth life, from your garden tomb.

Today's Mission
Bring that hopeless part of your life, that death, that sorrow, that impossible part, to Messiah so that He will restore you from your brokenness into new life today.

Ephesians 1:7
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND