Several years ago I was torn between planting blackberries or raspberries along the fence-row. I have always wanted to grow berries and have longed over the pictures in the seed catalog, but I have heard that raspberries are hard to grow in Oklahoma. And I hate the thorns on blackberries, but now thornless blackberries have been developed.
Our yard isn’t quite right for a garden like I had at our other house, which covered about a fourth of the yard. We grew tomatoes, beans, squash, okra, but those plants require space. Blackberries take up a a lot of room too, spreading rapidly in every direction.
I love to garden, but gardening is hard work. What I really love is the dreaming, the planning, the thinking, the studying about a garden. The actual doing of it is where the hard work comes in.
Two years ago I finally made up my mind and planted thornless blackberries along the chain-link fence on the south side of my yard. Last year I harvested 50 blackberries from my four plants, but this year the plants are loaded down with blooms and little berries. I might get a gallon or more.
My problem is I sometimes have trouble making up my mind. James 1:6-8 says, “he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind, …for he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Double-minded. Unstable. Unable to make a decision, unable to choose what seems to others to be a very simple choice.
The Lord has set a choice before us that will determine our whole destiny.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20, ” I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life…for He is your life and the length of your days.” God gives us a choice and then He even tells us which to choose. He knows what is best, but He leaves the choice up to you.
Choose life. Choose blessing. Choose Jesus Christ.