A Well-Watered Garden

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If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:9b-12

I'm needing Spring now.  Winter is almost over.  I can see the signs of grass trying to grow, daffodils blooming.  I even saw grape hyacinths yesterday but it is still cold--27 degrees this morning--brrrr.
Are our lives like Spring--raring to blossom, ready to bloom into the person God wants us to be?....Maybe the cold is still holding us back.  Maybe the water is not reaching us yet.  Maybe we've decided to be some plant that God didn't intend.  I'm not sure I'm doing my part if I'm reading what the Lord says.  If you are interested, Isaiah quotes the Lord in chapter 58 and tells us exactly what God intends for our lives.  When I look at this check list, I see that I'm a pitiful example of a well-watered garden.  I'm going to get the fertilizer now.