Pastor Casey’s Blog

What a bunch of weeds!

This past week I spent almost all of Friday outside. Not fun playing in the sun, but weeding, mowing, and edging the lawn. It was hard work. Afterwards, my neck was a little red (first time in months) and my legs and my back were sore. It was a long day. I would never say that I enjoy spending that much time weeding. If anyone would say that, they are welcome to come over to my house and take care of it for me.

After mowing, edging, weeding, and watering the landscape, I was finally ready to head back inside and try to relax. Two days later I was watering the grass and I noticed….more weeds! They were not really big, but tons of little ones all around the flowers. They were everywhere, all the picking that I had done didn’t even seem to matter.

I started thinking about how we try to remove ourselves from sin (or weeds) in our lives. God wants our lives to be blameless, pure, free from weeds and anything else that might cause us to stumble, or keep us from growing closer to God.

If we try removing the sin from our lives by ourselves, it will not last long before our sin is back and trying to take over our lives. Not only can God remove the weeds from our lives, He can purify us from them and keep them from coming back. Only if we will let him. Are you trying to remove the weeds yourself? Or are you letting God remove the weeds for you?