It's winter out there. Not much gardening going on. They say that you can tell a lot about your garden in the winter. The bones of your garden are exposed, the structure, the foundation, the design plan that everything hinges on. When spring and summer come, all is glorious color and texture, filling the beds with beauties of multi-colored flowers, spilling over the edges of paths. You don't see the bones in the summer when all things are colorful and gorgeous. The time to see what a garden is really made of is in the winter. It is then you can make changes and redesign bits of your garden.
You can tell a lot about the bones of your spiritual life, also, in the wintertime. When trials come or when days are dreary and mundane or dark, the foundation that has been laid really shows up. It is easy to follow Jesus and be excited in the summer when all things are well and beautiful. The real truth of your life in Jesus is revealed, though, in the winter.
Foundational plants, like boxwood, small trees, grasses, or evergreens and arbors give framework for all the other plants to show their beauty throughout the seasons. Otherwise, your garden has no order and can easily just become a mixup of multicolored plants. It is the same in our spiritual life in Jesus. My foundation, my spiritual bones, must be fed and nourished in Jesus through reading His Word and praying and talking to Him. When the bones of these basic structures are built into my life, my spiritual garden has strength which will keep me through the dark winters of life. There are seasons in spiritual life as well as in the garden. When days are dark, stick on the basics. God will build your soul strong and give your bones needed nourishment. Spring will come eventually, and then He will send blossoms of beauty springing up. K.C.
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