Eradicating the Weeds

        On my morning walk yesterday, I saw a neatly kept

lawn. It had beautiful flowers and the grass was cut. It

made me pause to reflect on our lives. Just as a person

is diligent about spraying their grass to keep the weeds

out and pulling weeds out of their flower garden so we

also must be diligent to pull the weeds out of our hearts.

        We know if we let weeds keep growing they just

seem to take over and the roots grow deeper. It is the

same in our lives. Those weeds (sin) can take over when

we go from day to day without making time to reflect on

our lives and without praying for God’s guidance and help

to see the weeds (sin) and ask His help and forgiveness.

        In our daily prayer how many times do we ask God’s

forgiveness and repent (turn away from our sins). Most

of the time if you are like I am, I ask God for help for

other’s health or my own needs. I forget to look deeply at

my heart and my life to see where sin is either creeping in

or has a deep root. 

        I have decided to watch more diligently for those weeds

in my life; to pray more for God’s help to remove them from

my heart so I can be more like Jesus. I challenge you to also

watch for the weeds.