Reclaiming the Inner Life as Christ’s Sacred Retreat
What if your soul is more than a battlefield—or a burden to manage—but a garden?
In this episode, we step into the rich metaphor drawn from Charles Spurgeon’s 19th-century devotion on Song of Solomon 5:1, where Christ says, “I am come into my garden.” With help from Gordon MacDonald’s Ordering Your Private World, and a haunting lyric from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, we explore what it means to reclaim the soul as sacred space.
You’ll be invited to:
- Reimagine your inner life as a walled garden—set apart, protected, and tended by grace
- Hear Spurgeon’s challenge to resist worldly encroachment
- Reflect on MacDonald’s insight: that an untended soul will always be overrun by the world
- Long for the Eden your soul remembers—and the Christ who still walks among the lilies
This isn’t about performance—it’s about presence.
Not religious activity—but relational intimacy with the One who purchased your soul as His own retreat.
📖 “Would that we could see the wall of separation between the church and the world made broader and stronger.” – Spurgeon
🎵 “We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” – CSNY
🙏 Takeaway:
Your soul is not public property.
It is Christ’s garden.
And the Gardener is waiting.
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