Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
El Olam; the everlasting God.
It is also interpreted as the Eternal God. It is not lost on me that the name is first used in conjunction with this response by Abraham to a substantive event in Abraham’s life. Abraham made a covenant with Abimelech over the water well named Beersheba, the well of refreshing.
The planting of the grove, fruit bearing, seed producing, seed planting, tree growth, on and on generation after generation was in itself not only a memorial to the God of Abraham but unto the process by which God should be known unto all men time after time and time again.
Psalm 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
That precious seed of Abraham is Christ Jesus. Planting Christ in your heart is the everlasting chain of producing the good fruit that reproduces the good seed, which gets planted once again, into the hearts of the lost.
Matthew 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Only El Olam could bring life from death.
Romans 6:3-4 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
By the glory of the Father, El Olam, our eternal God.
I am no expert gardener, but I know my grass.
A lawn, left unattended, becomes wild. Tall fescue grass spreads by means of stolons and rhizomes. Crab grass does seed, and it also spreads above ground.
Crab grass begins its life above ground, and like satan, he storms the heavenlies looking for those he can devour. He will take root IF we permit him to do so. Fescue seed needs to be grounded … good ground. It needs to be immersed in good ground. It takes root and spreads through the good ground. Crab grass, the enemy, can never be permitted to root, especially in the good ground God has given us.
Though we may be growing in the good ground, we always need to be aware of the seeds of satan, ever watchful to deceive and choke us.
Such a beautiful message and name, Lar. Thank you.
And thanks to Ern for his thoughts as well. Y’all have blessed me today.