Check out the word husbandman and it is translated the farmer.

Our God gardens. Look at his first project.

After creating the world; he created a garden.

He chose a place east of Eden. The word eden means delight or pleasure. There the Lord planted a garden. The world was created with plants and animals. He created a man and then he created a special place for him to live. A place so wonderful it’s name was The Garden of Pleasure. We treat the word pleasure like it is nasty, but pleasure should be pure. Pleasure comes from enjoying the delights God has given us in the setting He provides.

So what did God plant in the Garden?

Genesis 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Then God brought the living animals He created to Adam so He could name them.

Genesis2:19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Then God created the woman to be in the Garden with Adam. Our Creator loves to fashion what is beautiful.  And in the evenings, God came and spent time one on one with Adam and Eve.

Genesis3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:

Now Jesus in John 15 tells us God is gardening again. Jesus is the vine, we are the branches and the Father tends the vine to produce fruit.  And we know God is tending his garden to produce the sweetest of fruit.

The twelve year old me sat in a church and listened to a sermon that impacted me in such a way, I made the decision to follow Jesus for the rest of my life.  I do not remember a single word from that sermon.  I remember standing in the pew, music playing, preaching call all those who desire to come.  I remember that one moment I was standing there and the next moment I was standing in front of the church announcing I was now a Christ follower.

I can still see those moments in my mind — the sermon, I do not recall.

When I look back over my years of sitting and listening to sermons a vast number impacted me at the time, but I don’t remember them still today.

But a few I do, this is one.

As a teen sitting in a pew, a visiting pastor spoke giving the following example of human nature.
God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. 
The pastor stood at a spot near the pulpit. “God is here” he said. 
He side stepped and moved over a foot or two.  “Bible based churches are here” 
Once again he moved to his left.  “the liberal churches, those who ignore the words of God, stand farther away.”
His last slide over “This is the devil.  This is where Satan is.”

He paused in the devil’s spot and then took another step to the left.
The Prince of Liars moves and what happens to the Christians.  Yep they each take a step to the left.  He moves again and again and the churches move.

After a few side moves in this visual, the bible based church was standing where the liberal church had been, the liberal church held satin’s spot.  Where was God?

He remained where He started.

Life has shown me how accurate that example is.