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I weeded my flower garden today.....half of it, anyway. There were lots of weeds. Between them and the cutting back of plants for the fall, I filled 5 wheelbarrows full of yard waste, and spent 5 hours working. It was satisfying work. And it's work that I can see the result of right away. Things went from chaos to order in that short time period.
So I was talking to God about this as I weeded. I wondered why the sin in my life couldn't be more like the easy weeds that come out smoothly. Unfortunately, it is more like the huge weeds. Even though I make sure to gather all of the branches in one bunch, I pull and heave and heave and pull and nothing happens.
So I take the hand held pointy hoe and hack at the tap root. I hack and hack and hack and loosen dirt. Then I heave and pull. And back I fall onto my butt with the tap root still in the ground, leaving a promise of a return of the weed. Grrrr.
God, you are the master gardener. Why does it have to be such a long process? Why do you leave the tap root in my heart so that the sin isn't completely gone?
I'm not patient......another "weed" for God to work on. I can't do it.
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Chris wrote-
"God, you are the master gardener. Why does it have to be such a long process? Why do you leave the tap root in my heart so that the sin isn't completely gone?"
Why do you assume God is leaving the tap root in your heart?
Just maybe you like the weed, sometimes they deceive us by having pretty flowers.
So true. I guess I need to get my field manual out to see if I can identify whether it is weed or flower.
Thanks for the comment, whoever you are.
Yeah, those taproots take a long time to come out. Sometimes the gardener himself will come and do the work.
Besides, the garden is also filled with weed seeds. Even if you were to uproot all the weeds, the seeds would still stay there hidden, dormant and resistant, waiting for a favorable climate. (see Mat. 13:25 )
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