Last year I added green onions to my garden for the first
time. While it wasn’t exactly a bumper crop, I did get a few decent onions.
This year, however, I didn’t plant any onions. That’s why I was quite surprised
to find the onion, pictured above, growing in my yard this year. The onion is
easily three feet high and puts off a great onion aroma.
I couldn’t help but think about how God blesses us by
sending the rain and giving food from the ground. More often than not we have
to do our share of work, toiling by the sweat of the brow. But at the end of
the day it is the Lord who gives the increase.
In Deuteronomy 6 Yahweh told Moses that eventually Israel
would enter the Promised Land, and when they did, they would live in cities they
did not build and houses filled with goods that they didn’t put in them. They
would also drink water from wells they didn’t dig, and eat from vineyards they
didn’t plant. Those markers would be the sign of God keeping His covenant
obligations.
But there was a warning: don’t forget the God who blesses
you. We are prone to do the same thing today. Most of us enjoy freedom that we
didn’t fight for, benefit from infrastructure that we didn’t build, and eat
food that we didn’t sweat for. God is the progenitor of those blessings, and we
need to be thankful for all He gives us.
Let a three-foot onion serve as a reminder that God sends
blessings that we do not deserve.
