The True Gardener

We are the roses, so who is the gardener? The answer obviously is Jesus Christ. But if he is the gardener, than how come we don't always recognize him as so? Sometimes we like to switch roles. “In their hearts humans plan their course, but THE LORD establishes their steps.”(Proverbs 16:9). It's easier for us to be the gardener and God the rose than to have to deal with blossoming the way Christ wants us to. We tend to make God what we want him to be. We don't like to change, so we ignore the parts of the Bible that tell us what we are doing wrong, and we only pay attention to the parts that tell us what we are doing right. But as said in the quote in the picture above, we need to let God carve away the parts that aren't supposed to be there. In order to truly become the roses that Christ wants us to be, we have to give him the tools. He is the only one who can change us; we can't truly change ourselves. If we want a change that LASTS, than we have to put the tools in the TRUE gardener's hands, and let him carve away anything not apart of the original design. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”(Jeremiah 29:11).