The Divine Husbandman.

God is sometimes called The Divine Husbandman.

A husbandman is a farmer, a tiller of the soil.

At first I found this puzzling.

But after some thought I realized that God plants seeds in our minds and hearts.  And he tends them and watches them grow and blossom into beautiful flowers.

There are innumerable references to this process in the Bible.

Not only in the Old Testament but in the New Testament in particular.

Jesus was constantly referencing agricultural symbols.

So whether it be The Cedars of Lebanon or The Branch of Jesse, whether it be The Parable of the Sower, or The Joyful Harvest, the scriptures are full of farming metaphors.

And so it is appropriate to think of God as a patient Divine Husbandman.

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