Lessons in a Weed

Lessons in a Weed

Above all else, guard your heart

for everything you do flows from it.

Proverbs 4:23

The gentleman who owned my home for many years before me was an avid gardener.  The lawn and landscaping was his pride and joy, and in his later years, he employed a professional lawn service..  I met the serviceman the summer that I purchased the house, and he gave me his card, assuring me that he would be delighted to continue providing great service and a spectacular lawn.

Suffice it to say that I did not have the money to pay a lawn service.  I reassured myself that it would be OK – that I was perfectly capable of maintaining the lawn myself.  I cannot begin to describe my surprise and dismay when Old Man Winter departed, Spring made her glorious entrance, and my lawn was a complete mass of weeds.  Between the nettle, the dandelions and their numerous cousins, there was hardly a patch of grass to be seen.  I was stunned!  Where in the world did they come from?

As human beings, we are not so very different from the grass – crazy as that sounds.  There are a million weeds out there, waiting to implant themselves into the lawn of your soul.  They come in all varieties – a little lie, an unkind act, a curse word, an inappropriate thought, a seemingly harmless addiction, a simple slander, a coveting glance, a little flirtation.  One little thing can’t be all that bad, right?

But it’s never just one, is it?  Weeds are one of the most persistent things on earth.  The minute one buries itself in the landscape, it works quickly to propagate into many, many more. The weeds of sin are exactly the same.  Let one submerge itself in your mind, and eventually it can consume your life from the inside out.   

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I’m so glad Jesus lifted me!

 I’m so glad Jesus lifted me!

I’m so glad Jesus lift me,

Singing glory, hallelujah, Jesus lifted me.

Satan had me bound, Jesus lifted me!

Satan had me bound, Jesus lifted me!

Satan Had me bound, Jesus lifted me,

Singing glory hallelujah, Jesus lifted me!