Spring Showers Bring Summer Flowers

This old saying speaks volumes of how one season prepares the land for the next season.  We can see it clearly, with the amount of rain and wind that comes with springtime, pollen gets pushed around by the wind, flowers get germinated, the earth receives copious amounts of water necessary for the plants and flowers to develop and grow for the summer. 

At times though, the plants and flowers need some help to get the nutrients they need, if not they won’t grow. That’s where we come in. If you love gardening, then you would know that springtime is the season to help the most because the temperature has just started to warm up, humidity levels are perfect for germination and cultivating sprouts, soils have been soaking up all that melting snow or morning dew. And while the earth itself, by God’s divine providence, prepares the land perfectly, sometimes things are being hindered from growing.

There’s this beautiful little parable that describes this scenario.   
 
“And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’” Luke‬ ‭13:6-9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

You see, the owner asked the gardener to remove a tree that just wouldn’t produce. But the gardener knew some extra special care needed to be done in order for that tree to produce fruit again, and if the efforts still didn’t work, then he would remove it himself. 

Entering into this spring season, what are some areas in your work, in your family, in your community that you see need some extra special care to start producing again? I would encourage you in this, start digging circles, start spreading nutrients, start helping the land prepare to produce fruit in the coming seasons.