Weeds

I have been spending a lot of time weeding in my garden lately.  I find it interesting that most of the weeds surround and over take the flowers, while the area that is just dirt, have no weeds present.

I wonder if the flower is even aware that it's life is slowly being choked away?

It's a slow death.

From my perspective I recognize the presence of the weed and see it's destruction;  from the flowers perspective, it goes unnoticed, unaware of it's dire consequences.

When I weed around my flower, sometimes I only get the top of the weed, missing the root entirely.  I can expect new growth from that weed in a few days.  Other times while removing the root of the weed, the flower is yanked out along with weed.  The casualty of allowing the weed to be rooted next to the flower in the first place, too much time passed between weeding.

Sometimes weeds look like actual flowers.  I must know my flowers in order to keep unwanted disease away from them.

Sin works the same way.  Other's may see it in my life, but I might not recognize it for what it truly is.  Maybe I have justified a sin in my life, telling myself that 'it's not so bad.'  And before I know it, it has taken over my life, and when I go to remove it, part of myself is damaged.

Maybe it's a sin that reoccurs.  Maybe it's habitual?  I remove the part of the weed that is seen by others, but I keep the root buried deep inside my heart.

Or maybe this sin is pretty on the outside and I have been deceived, not seeing the destructive work it is doing in my life?

What weeds do I tend in the garden of my heart?  How do I recognize the weeds in my life?

God's Word.  

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart-Hebrews 4:12

I want to weed my heart from sin...but that's just me!

If you're planting your feet in what God says in His Word, your heart will tell you the truth-

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