My Garden
Good Afternoon,
I just came in from a a full out assault on a dandelion weed that is sitting smack dab in my front garden. I noticed it last week when it was small, I thought to myself I would get to it on the weekend. Weekend came and went and today the weed is now a monstrous size. And its prickly. I couldn’t pull it out. In fact I could do very little to rid my garden of its presence. My kids suggested I get out the hedge trimmer…that gives you an idea of how big this thing is. After tugging, pulling and watching my boys stare at their mom unable to move the weed, I walked away. I was tired and my arm was all scratched up from the prickly needles that were there to defend itself. I waved the white flag of defeat and came in.
As I was washing away the dirt that was the evidence of my fight it struck me how my struggles in life often look like this ugly stubborn weed. I’m talking about an attitude, an unwise choice, something that that may seem innocent enough but given time is turns and becomes entrenched much like my weed. The roots can grow deep and my hearts stubbornness to deal with the weed often produce a prickly exterior just as my garden foe has. The pulling is painful, my first few attempts at weeding my garden left me feeling defeated, and yet unlike the weed in my garden, I have the power and the promise of the Holy Spirit to help me in weeding my heart.
As I scratch the areas on my arm that the needles dug into, I realized the longer I leave my attitude, my behavior unattended it continues to take root. The roots can be hidden, others may not see them, and yet what is blooming, what will blossom will often be horny, defensive, not how a daughter of the King of Kings should behave.
So friends, I challenge you to do some soul searching and start the process of weeding out that which you know should not be planted in your hearts garden. Take it from me if I had attended to my weed a few days ago I wouldn’t be pulling out the electric trimmer. Now I’m off to the power tool!
Galatians 6:7 (The Message)
7-8Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
Journey On,
May 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Well said. I guess another way of saying it would be to “nip it in the bud” before it “blooms”!!
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