Weeds In The Garden

July 8, 2010

This summer morning was cool with a light breeze. So I decided to pull some weeds from my Mother-in-law’s flower garden. As I was pulling the weeds , I felt the Lord Jesus speaking to my heart.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been harboring anger and resentment over a situation at the church my wife and I attend. As the situation had come to a head, and had escalated to a point to where I stormed out of a midweek service in anger. My anger was not that of the righteous kind but that directed from one human to another. Sin is sin anyway you look at it, and my anger was as sinful as it gets.

The Lord began to open my eyes to the fact that these weeds were like a cancerous growth of sin strangling out the life in the garden God was working on in my heart. I was holding this anger inside just for my own justification of the matter as I saw it. But I was not doing my eternal connection with my Savior any good. In fact, I was polluting the stream that flowed between us with poison.

1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

I was beginning to see that rebellion, which has stricken me for years, was tearing not only in my personal life to where I couldn’t get over a so minor a thing as the situation at our church, but it was literally tearing my life apart and destroying my relationship I have with Jesus. As the moment seemed to hold my mind fixed upon the situation at hand, I repented desperately to my Heavenly Father. I was so sorry for carrying this sin as an alter to my own righteousness , which we are told in the word of God, is but filthy rags. I was wrong and I had to get right!

I so love Jesus for loving me more than I could ever say. By pulling me out of hell, literally, He made the most profound statement on my life that my memory will ever hold dear.
I have repented for my sins and I have pulled myself up and dusted myself off. I will go forward with Jesus.

I pray what has happened to me will help someone else. Rock On!