The importance of good soil...
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The importance of good soil is driven home to me every time I go into my back yard. On the south side of my garden the soil is rich loam. On the north end, the soil is sandy and tends, when watered excessively, to turn as hard as cement. Over the years I have added loads of topsoil, shoveled on blood meal, tilled in peat moss, cow manure, compost, coffee grounds and ashes. At first, each of these cures appear effective. When I pick up the newly worked soil to let it run through my fingers as my grandfather used to do, it performs marvelously.
But once the seed has been planted and begins to take roots, the soil stubbornly reverts to its old self: sandy and rock hard. The plants spring up quick enough, but soon begin a season-long struggle to produce even a few scraggly offerings of fruit.
It is a good reminder of what it is like to be rooted in someone other than Christ.
--Becker 2
But once the seed has been planted and begins to take roots, the soil stubbornly reverts to its old self: sandy and rock hard. The plants spring up quick enough, but soon begin a season-long struggle to produce even a few scraggly offerings of fruit.
It is a good reminder of what it is like to be rooted in someone other than Christ.
--Becker 2
