Weeds

One of the things I really dislike about owning a home is the yard work. I don’t mind doing some good hard work, but it never seems to last very long, which is the very annoying part for me. Weeds just seem to take over the yard if you don’t watch things for even a day. Check your flower beds at home and I bet you’ll find something there as well. Then there are also the weeds in the grass, and anything along the edges of your house, garage, kid's equipment, etc. No matter how much you work on them, the weeds are fighting to find a way to make their way further and further into the yard.

I realized as I was outside this weekend that once again this is just like our lives. We are a freshly planted flower bed when we’re born. We’ve got new dirt and have just been planted with something nice. As the days go on eventually weeds start to invade. They start out small and are often taken care of quickly at first. Then, as time goes on there are times when the a weed finds its way into a more permanent position. It not only gets a good hold in the flower bed, but then the weed starts to spread to other areas. If that isn’t kept in check, eventually that one weed can take over the entire flower bed.

Have you ever had that happen in your life? Where a weed (sin) came into your life and you didn’t get rid of it right away? Then that one weed spread and took over? This week I’d like to challenge my readers to check over your flower bed and see what weeds are there and start to get rid of them. Take out a few and see if you can clean up the entire thing. After that you just have to maintain it….which will be a lot easier than the initial cleaning of the flower bed. If you can clean your flower bed and keep it clean of weeds, the more Sun (or should I say the Son) the flower bed can get – and the more you can grow!