Centre of Hope Victory Church

Weeds

Weeds both amaze and frustrate me. I don’t like to use herbicides on my lawn so I end up trying to remove weeds the old fashioned way.

I either pull or dig. This inevitably leads to a problem. I generally don’t get all the weed when I pull so a week or

so later it grows again stronger than before. Even if I try to pry it out with one of those weed pullers,

I still seem to leave just enough for it to revitalize itself.

Through years of digging weeds I have come to the conclusion that the only way to completely

remove a weed is to dig a hole at least three feet across and three feet deep around the weed,

then fill the hole with new soil. It would be effective, but not practical.

I often feel the same way about some of the ‘weeds’ in my life.

No matter how hard I pull or how much I dig, I just cannot seem to rid myself of them.

In Psalms 51:10, David asks of God, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."

(KJV) That is the only way we can effectively remove the ‘weeds’ from our lives.

We need to ask God to create a clean heart and right spirit in us, one that will not nourish weeds.