A Weed or not a Weed?
Folks, I learned a little lesson in gardening this morning. We were outside having our morning coffee when Jose asked me, "What happened to my pepper plant over here?" Well, it's like this;
yesterday morning I was talking with the neighbors over the fence and I happened to look down in one of the flower boxes and spotted what I thought was a big weed growing there. Well, I think you all know where this is headed. As I was talking, I kept thinking, why didn't he pull this weed?
It really bugged me. So, before I left to go about my various errands of the day, I reached down and yanked that "weed" up and tossed it beside the flower box! Never thought a thing about it until "what happened to my pepper plant over here?! " He had nursed that plant all summer(it came from Mexico), so I can imagine how upset he was! What could I do but tell him I was sorry?
He took it pretty good , considering that plant was his pride and joy! It could have possibly been saved, but Jose mowed the yard last nite and the plant probably got chewed up with the mower. I feel bad that I destroyed his pepper plant, but I had good intentions of ridding the weed from the flowers.
I see weeds in a different light now. I know that some good plants can look like weeds! Kind of like sin in our lives. Sometimes we have a difficult time discerning what is sin and what is not sin. Sin by any other name is still sin. In the world today many would disguise their sin to look like a "good plant" when in reality, it is a big weed. Like I mistook the good plant for a weed and plucked it up, sometimes we mistake "weeds" for good plants and allow them to flourish in our "gardens". The problem with weeds, as a good gardener would know, is that if left to grow they will overtake the garden and kill all the good plants or stop them from reaching their potential. I guess what I'm trying to get across here is this: We need to recognize the "weeds " and strive to cultivate the "good plants", weeds being sin and good plants being what God would have us grow! The lesson I learned today is :UNLESS YOU KNOW FOR SURE ITS A WEED, LEAVE IT TO THE GARDENER TO TAKE CARE OF IT!
posted by ruthrap @ Tuesday, July 25, 2006
3 Comments:
One other note, sometimes we spend more time weeding other people's gardens while we let our own (where we know the difference between the good plants and weeds) get out of control. I know it is a lot easier for me to point the finger at someone else's sin then to point the finger back at myself and say "So how about you, how are you doing?"
On sin, "Sometimes we have a difficult time discerning what is sin and what is not sin." This is why being in the God word is so important. It is so easy to look at sin through the "world's eyes" and not "God's eyes". We will not truly deal with our sin till we see it as God sees it and remember the price it cost God for Him to remove the penalty of the sin from us.
this is true, Sean, thank you for pointing this out, you're right about seeing the sin in others before we look at our own sin. The Word tells us to "judge not, that you be judged." I guess in that last sentence I was trying to say that, weeds being sin and The Gardener being God!
haha good post!
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