Genesis 2:8. Planting of the Lord

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Genesis 2:8. “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” 

    God is the Original Gardener. He planted a garden! Let your mind's eye try to capture that! There are some fantastically artistic and beautiful gardens designed by man’s genius and maintained by his industry, but they must be faint shadows of the glory of that divinely engineered masterpiece. The meaning of the name Eden says it all: “pleasant and delightful.” 

    But notice something else: God works, and then He puts man into His work. As in Creation, so in redemption. 

    The story of man’s participation in Creation in Genesis chapter two begins with a description of the Sabbath: rest in the completed works of God in which God Himself makes us participants! God planted a garden, and then he planted man in that garden. God wants to replant you today. 

    “Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified […] that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified” (Isaiah 60:21, 61:3).

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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).