May 17, 2007 - Lessons from an herb garden

May 17, 2007

Once a month, the Home Depot has a Kids Workshop day. The parents and kids come in, are given a project free of charge and get to build it together. This month, in honor of Mother's Day of course, the project was an herb garden. We made our project, and brought them home and my youngest gave his to mom, complete with the seeds planted in the pot.

We watched each day to see if the seeds were growing. I though he had planted them down to far and would never reach the top. One day we looked and there they were, one set of plants had made it through. He wanted to take it out and look at it but I explained that the plant would be killed if he did that. We could not replant it back down. After a few more days we could take the plants and use them as herbs in cooking, but for now, give the herbs time to grow.

How much is our faith like that though? Don't we want to harvest when we see the blade sticking through. Jesus warns about this though:

Mar 4:28-29 KJV
(28) For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
(29) But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

The time to harvest is not when the blade sticks through, it is when you get to the fruit stage. So many times I have wanted to thank God for the first return I got. That killed any others from coming. Know when to harvest.