Weeds in Our Lives

Weeds in our Lives                                                  

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Scripture:     The Parable of the Soil and the Seed
                     From Jesus, the Great Communicator 

Matthew 13: 1-24


Verse 8: "Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 
9 Let anyone with ears listen!"


The pulling of weeds in my garden is not a favorite activity, but a must for bearing good fruit.  The pile of weeds pulled one summer afternoon was likely greater than the pile of fruit I could stack by the end of the season.  The problem, I had not nourished or enriched the soil and failed to protect the plants during the last month of teaching school.  I was just too busy.

The weeding started with a traditional Japanese trowel which could hardly break the ground.  Therefore, I went to a greater power than my arm and that trowel.....  a small tiller.  It took a lot of digging and gas, gas that God created and allowed me to use.  But the weeds started to succumb to the tiller.

The weeds were tough to remove because they had established a presence in the garden by growing deep, dense roots that resisted being torn and ripped from the soil.  With the tiller, even some roots successfully thwarted the effort to be dug out.  (see the picture below)  I ran out of time, and considered an even higher power---- Round Up.  

Evil and Sin in our lives are as weeds in our gardens.

The weeds had a mesh of roots similar to the evil we allow to penetrate our lives.  When evil roots (ungodly behaviors) become established in our lives they become resistant to us ridding ourselves of that evil. The behaviors often are pleasurable and desiring but are not God’s way.  In evil becoming established, there is often nothing we can do except to call on God through the Holy Spirit to help us rid ourselves of the evil we allow to prevail in our lives.

Although I did not pray for them, I am thankful for those weeds in my garden.  I was humbled to a higher power to get purge them.

   Likewise, and best of all, it gave a reminder that we must humble ourselves before God and ask for his abundant help to rid evil and poor behaviors in our lives.

He is there,  Always Ready, to come to our rescue.
As Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 5 verses 11-23,
   Pray always, be thankful in all situations we find ourselves

In our prayers and and in our faithfulness in praising God regardless of our circumstances, we worship God.

How well are you taking care of your garden called “my life”.   How good is the soil called your life.  Do you nourish, enrich, feed, and cultivate it?  Most of all, do you take measures to rid the weeds from your life.   Prayer and Bible Study is the best place to start.  Ask the Holy Spirit to help you rid the weeds and sin from your life.

Where is your higher power? OR, are you too busy.

Let those who have ears, hear and understand.


Thanks Be to God

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Please note, Paul in the above does not tell us to be thankful for the situations we find ourselves as he uses the word "in" and not "for".  We must seek to find something, a silver lining, to be thankful in the situations we find ourselves.  It can be all about attitude in trusting God.

==========Weeds penetrating the soil========================

Crab grass:
Crab grass grows deep and does not allow anything else to grow.  It will even kill a healthy plant.  When we allow a small sin to grow in our lives without purging it, it can lead to greater sin that overpowers us.

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WHAT WE THINK OFTEN FILLS OUR LIVES.  Our minds grow in ideas in some way everyday.  We should want to grow thoughts that when we are older we will have good memories.
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