"Divine Cultivation"

"I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day." Isa. 27:3
My father-in-law is a master gardener. He meticulously nurtures his tender plants by watering and cultivating on a regular basis. He does not wait for anyone else to tend to the garden entrusted to him. Without such care his beautiful garden would be choked out with weeds, infested with vermin and insects. So, our Heavenly Father divinely cultivates the tender vineyard of His children. When the Lord Himself speaks in His own proper person rather than through a prophet, the word has a peculiar weight to believing minds. It is Jehovah Himself who is the keeper of His own vineyard. He does not trust it to any other but makes it His own personal care. Are they not well kept whom God Himself keeps? We are to receive gracious watering, not only every day and every hour, "but every moment. How we ought to grow! How fresh and fruitful every plant should be! What rich clusters the vines should bear! But disturbers come; little foxes and the boar. The Master Gardener, the Lord Himself is our Guardian at all hours, both "night and day." So what can harm us? Why are we afraid? He tends, He waters, He guards; what more do we need? Twice in this verse the Lord says, "I will." What truth, what power, what love, what immutability we find in the great "I will" of Jehovah! Who can resist His will? If He says "I will," what room is there for doubt? With an "I will" of God we can face all the hosts of sin, death, and hell. O Lord, since you say, "I will keep you," I reply, "I will praise You!"