We’ve been doing a lot of weeding. And though it is not the most fun I get it. There are plants taking up water and space. Some are actually choking out the good things…our fruit (veggie!) bearing crops.
We have to weed this garden.
And I truly believe we have to weed our hearts. Our heart soil can be good and things can be growing but are we sure what is growing. Have we stopped and looked? Are we producing fruit or are there weeds choking the fruit out?
It can be so hard to identify some weeds and some can be so easy. So easy that our five year old can get bucketfuls without us saying a word. And then there are times when Chase and I have to really look at the leaves and pull one out to see…and how do we really know it’s a weed….there is no fruit.
If there are things in our lives that do not produce fruit why are they there and why in the world are we letting them grow?!?
It will alter our hearts when we weed. Some of the potatoes have been supported by weeds. The potatoes and weeds are tangled and twisted up together and when we pull the weeds out… the potato plants lose a leaf or two and look a little droopy. But with some water and some time these beauts grow! They get stronger, they stand up straight and tall and they produce more fruit.
That water….without it nothing would grow. It’s a life giving water, a water that will make us thirst no more. So make sure you’re getting the water!! And don’t forget to weed, it’s not the most fun but it is productive, you’ll yield a better crop, He told me so!
Matthew 13: 22 “As for what was down among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.”
