Poetic Expressions

The Garden of Faith - 1.1.18

You planted a garden within me

With a tiny seed of faith

And with each Word I heard 

That seed began to grow 

and germinate

deep inside my soul

I hadn’t even noticed it yet

for it lay beneath the soil

But where you planted seed

An enemy came and grew 

Weeds upon weeds 

The weeds were doubt 

That kept me from 

Knowing you

The doubt weeds grew fast and tall

and all too soon

The weeds were all I knew

In fact it’s what others only saw in me

And I saw within myself

And the seed you planted stayed buried

By the relentless weeds

You then came back to visit

the garden of my soul

You noticed the weeds and intervened

You saw my torment 

my doubt

my sin

You heard me cry out

And then you saw my seed of faith 

That you had planted long ago

You remembered your love for me 

My soul washed clean 

by the blood of your Son

Was all you needed to see

You came in with your gentle hand

And unwrapped every weed 

that was choking my tiny faith seed

And as you did you awakened my soul

You showed me your end-goal

The garden of faith you would like to grow

Of endless blooms of promise and hope

I believed

I trusted

I prayed

You answered

The weeds of doubt

were now all pulled out

The seed of faith

Began to grow once more above the soil

And visible now for not just me to know

You watered my faith seed

You left me your Spirit

To show me 

That when the weeds begin to grow

I should daily weed

My garden of faith

and fertilize it with your Word

So now I do remember

When a weed of doubt begins to sprout

It must immediately be pulled out

for you long to make my garden fruitful

and feed my faith with your Word

Caring for a garden is laborsome

but a garden in bloom

Is one that has grown