Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - The True Vine - My Father is The Gardener
Day 2: My Father is the Gardener
“Sing about a fruitful vineyard: I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it” (Isaiah 27:3).
There is infinite comfort in the truth of the divine Fatherhood... We require no proof that God loves us— if He is our Father, that suffices... Whatever our circumstances may be, we know that infinite love is the guiding principle and the great motive of all that He does...
It was Jesus Christ who revealed the truth of this... When He taught us to say “Our Father,” He brought God down close to us, and opened for us the way to His heart of infinite love.
Jesus says, “My Father is always at His work… and I too am working” (John 5:17). This is our Father’s world. There is no “chance”—all things are under control of God’s infinite wisdom and love. There is a great Heart of everlasting love at the center of all things.
We are not required to make all things work out for good. “My Father is the husbandman”— the gardener of our of souls. When we are taken up and transplanted, it is the Father who does it. When the pruning-knife cuts away beautiful things that we so much wanted to keep, the Father does it.
It is not “blind chance” which sometimes uproots our life so ruthlessly. Nor is it cruelty that brings suffering and pain to us. Yet some people wonder, “How can I believe that God loves me, while He is afflicting me so?”
The answer to the question is, “My Father is the gardener!”
~ J.R. Miller, In Our Father's Hands
This is my Father’s world:
Oh, let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world,
The battle is not done:
Jesus who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and Heav’n be one.
~ Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901
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