Amazing to me how we are surrounded by examples of how life is to be lived. Soil becomes hard, as a rock relatively quickly, when it is not REGULARLY loosened. People are like that and do not realize it. Habits, attitudes, routines, ways of entrenched thinking. Often mistakenly. Plants must have water, (living water is the word of God), sunshine, energy, photosynthesis, which is what God's instructions/commands give us.
A few years ago there was a phrase popular
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” (an atheistic one likely.)
In the light of God's truth ... it is correct.
Our life depends on God, and millions do not know it, and certainly they are not loosening up the soil of their lives purposefully everyday.