My man has recently taken to growing our own ‘organic’ ginger plant and tomato plant.
Here it is:
The three green sharp shoot are the ginger, and the slender shoot with leaves is the tomato. Isn’t it neat?
Actually, what interested me was the chopsticks. So I asked him what the chopsticks were for.
He of course, told me to guess.
And I, the urban, non-agriculture city girl said, ” Oh … it’s so that that plants can rest and support on the sticks …”. Because I was looking at that poor waif-look tomato plant with the slender body, but looking as if she needed to rest on some strong man.
My man said,” ….hmmm, partly, but that’s not the real (primary) reason.”
Then, to answer my question, he proceeded to put the ceramic plate which was holding, ON TOP of the sticks.
Then, he did this.
And he said, “If you accidentally ‘touch’ the plant or drop something from the top, where do you think it will hit first?”
He continued,” The chopsticks are a hedge. A hedge of protection for the plants …”
And of course, this is where God dropped his mini-tender revelation into my heart: The bible says that God put a “hedge” around Job and his household and around everything he had.
Hedge or “gader” in Hebrew is a wall, a hedge and a fence. And is some translations, a sheepfold. He protects us like the tender shoots, so that when the enemy throw his fiery darts at us, they hit His wall of protection, while we rest secure within.
And many times, we may not even know what we have been protected from the outside …
Isaiah 5
Now let me sing to my Well-beloved …
… a song of my Beloved regtarding His vineyard:
My Well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and cleared out its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
