Emphasis Preaching Journal
Multiple Illustrations for Christmas 1
Illustration
Isaiah 61:10--62:3
For all of the work that goes into making a garden productive and healthy, there is something self-perpetuating about it in a way scripture frequently remembers. As much as human hands do, no one draws stalks up from the dirt or coaxes pods from the stem. It happens overnight, as it were. Certainly no one tends to a forest except maybe God himself; instead, the forest scatters its own seed and grows because its own ecosystem has prepared and fertilized the soil.
For all of the work that goes into making a garden productive and healthy, there is something self-perpetuating about it in a way scripture frequently remembers. As much as human hands do, no one draws stalks up from the dirt or coaxes pods from the stem. It happens overnight, as it were. Certainly no one tends to a forest except maybe God himself; instead, the forest scatters its own seed and grows because its own ecosystem has prepared and fertilized the soil.
