A Grave In The Garden

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Adam and Eve were driven out of their garden to die. The Lord JESUS entered into a garden to suffer on His way to Calvary.
Sin, the sin of Eve, entered into that first garden and brought with it sorrow, suffering, and sighing. In the second garden, where the Saviour entered, sin entered also, but it was your sin and my sin, and sorrow entered with it.

You cannot expect a garden without a grave. This world is like a thicket; a dense small trees you cannot get through without being scratched. If you are building a garden, you will find that thorns and thistles will be there, trouble will come from many sources, the flowers will be scorched by the hot winds of adversity. You may find there the graves of your hopes and ambitions. There is a grave in every garden because every one must die, and each one who dies always dies in the midst of his garden, whatever that garden may be.

In some of these gardens a grave has been deliberately dug for the Lord JESUS. There are those who know very well that they cannot have a garden such as they want with CHRIST in it, so they build a tomb and carefully put Him away out of their lives, so that His presence may not disturb their garden building nor their own pleasures.

There are those who build gardens in their lives with no intention of leaving the Saviour out of that garden, because as they proceed in the building of it He might find things there that He would not approve of, and so they deliberately set about to build a tomb to put CHRIST out of the way.
 Now May I ask you, my friends, have you ever done anything like this? I know you are building a garden like everyone else. Are you planning to have the Lord JESUS in that garden with you, or are you crucifying Him and burying Him out of your sight?

Let me tell you of a few people I have known who built as I have described and buried the Saviour there.
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