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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