I learned some lessons about the nature of sin in my last post, Garden of Weedin’.
I was outside this afternoon and the clovers have taught me something new. If sin is not fully removed from your life — then it will return.
This is a picture of a spot of my grass that, to my knowledge, was devoid of clovers two days ago. Apparently I had left a bit of one clover plant. I couldn’t see it, but it was there. All it took as two days and the plant is completely regrown.
Isn’t sin like that? If it is not pulled out by the root, then it always will rear its head again some time soon.
I decided to research how I could get rid of these weeds other than pulling them, so there’d be no risk of me missing some and then the clovers taking back over.
This, too, taught me something about the nature of sin. I was reading on this website, that clovers do poorly in fertile soil. According to the website, “The best defense against any weed, clover included, is a healthy lawn.”
In my experience, the best defense against the spread of sin is a mind that is feed the nutrients of the Gospel. Scripture study, Church attendance, etc. keep our soil fertile and keep the weeds away.
Our own actions [picking the weeds by hand] are futile in keeping sin [the weeds] away. It takes the Gospel of Jesus Christ [nitrogen-rich fertilizer] to keep our souls clean [weed-free].
No wonder Adam was given a world with weeds — look how much you can learn from weed pickin’ in the backyard.
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17 February 2009 at 4:13 am
“The first care of every Christian ought to be, to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.” (Martin
Luther)
I hope you and your family are well =)