Today I'm sharing a devotion from Marika Marton.*
I love gardening.
Most weeds annoy me, and I usually pull them out as soon as they appear.
But a few times, I’ve come across weeds that actually looked pretty, so I let them grow. Some even bloomed with nice yellow flowers that I cut and placed in a vase on my kitchen table.
Then one day, I read an article warning about that very weed. It explained how, once it goes to seed, it can produce hundreds of new weeds—quickly overtaking a garden and choking out the good plants.
After reading that, I rushed outside and pulled out the “pretty weeds” I had purposely let grow. Some had grown so large I couldn’t even pull out the roots by hand.
That moment reminded me of a powerful spiritual truth.
How often do we allow “spiritual weeds” to grow in our lives— bad habits or attitudes that slowly crowd out the good fruit God wants to grow in us?
How many sins or distractions do we nurture, while they quietly steal the time, energy, and focus we could be giving to things that truly matter?
Let’s take a moment to identify the “pretty weeds” in our lives—those things we’ve excused or even cherished—and deal with them before they spread or take root too deeply like the thorns described in Mark 4:19.
With God’s help, we can clear them out. And when we do, our spiritual garden will flourish.
“...let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.” Hebrews 12:1
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For more insights see Are You Choking on Thorns? and Discernment: Use it or Lose It.
* Marika lives in Subotica, Serbia. She is the translator for the Hungarian Bible Love Notes A szeretet üzenete, the administrator for the Serbian Bible Love Notes Biblijske Crtice Ljubavi, and the admin for Bible Love Notes English and foreign social media pages. Plus she is my special friend. ~ Gail
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