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Yes He gave you a green thumb

1 Corinthians 3:5-9 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building.

You are a gardener in God’s hands. How you live your life and your circle of influence is the field in which He has placed you. You are where you are at every day by His purpose, and that day may be used to work the field. The simple idea of gardening is a great analogy of your Christian walk as a disciple. Do you reflect Christ in your field, or is there any evidence of your faith in that field? Is is barren and full of weeds, rocks, idols, and choked off so that the Word of God cannot grow in your life?

God gives us daily opportunities to encourage those in our field. He also has other gardeners working the same fields with us performing different tasks. It takes much discipline and nurturing to grow a healthy plant, but you may play a key role in watering that plant. The other gardener may nurture it and see it produce fruit, but you both have helped it grow through God’s grace. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

There is nothing you can do to force anyone to believe as you do, God must prepare their hearts and do the work in them. But you can deny them, and yourself the blessing by not “watering”; or sharing an encouraging word or deed with them. Don’t step on the plants that surround you by living unGodly in your field. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. A humble spirit living inside you may get to see the fruit of God’s work in your field sometimes and it brings great joy. He has given you the pail of Living Water to  pour out on your field to nurture it. John 7:38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” Do not keep the water to yourself but pour it out fully for He will never let your pail run dry.