Little Weeds

A few people think I need to be better about writing on my blog, so I'm going to try.  It's an interesting thing, this idea of putting your thoughts on the internet for anyone to see.  It's like letting other people into your mind and not knowing who is in there.  Maybe I should stick to crafts. *winks*

Today I spent an hour in a garden with my mom and brother.  We were pulling weeds.  Some of them were thin and dry and came out of the ground when you touched them.  Other weeds were not even coming up when we yanked and pulled.  I started thinking about weeds.

Want to hear what I think about weeds?

I have a garden.  We actually have a number of gardens.
We water those beautiful gardens so the plants will grow. 
The problem is, that the plants are not the only things that grow.
Weeds grow, too.
I don't want weeds.

The weeds start out small, like the plants that I want to grow.
Seedling weeds look a lot like intentional seedlings.

The thing about weeds? They don't stay small. 
If you don't take the time to pull them out by the roots they get bigger....and bigger... and BIGGER.
If you catch a weed even when it is getting a little bigger, you are able to pull it out.
But, eventually, they will get too big.
Too big to pull.
Too big to handle.
Too big.

This weed that is "too big" will eventually go to seed.
These seeds will fall.
Those seeds will grow.
It is a vicious circle.

The way to solve this problem?
Stop.
Take time to pull those little weeds before they have a chance to take root. 
To grow.
To get out of hand.

There's more to this whole topic than you think.

Sins are a whole lot like weeds.

Sins start out small. Good actions start out small.
Habits. Actions. Words.

If these little sins are not caught while they are small.
If these sins are given a chance to grow, unchecked.
If these sins get any larger, any more ingrained, they continue to grow.
They will get so large, that it will be even harder, and take more time and work, to extract them.

The "trick" is, catch them while they are small.
Keep working.
Never stop.
Always pull even the smallest weeds, or they will grow.
They will grow out of hand.

We need to work.
We need to strive.
... ... ...
We need to weed.

Proverbs 24:30-34
³⁰ I went past the field of a sluggard,
past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
³¹ thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins.
³² I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
³³ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest—
³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a thief
and scarcity like an armed man.

We will be ruined if we sit and let the weeds grow.


(Just a note: I had a hard time trying to figure out what scripture went best with this idea I had.  I had the idea, but it wasn't so much with a scriptural application as much as a spiritual analogy.  These verses had the same idea, of the laziness, and not weeding out those sins in your life, so I chose Proverbs.)