Matthew 13:24-26 NIV
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
Proverbs 22:5 NIV
5 In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them.
As I was walking through the garden the other day, after a nice summer rain, I noticed that weeds had sprouted up around all the vegetable plants and it occurred to me that this situation had an important message to convey.
Each one of us has a particular variety of fruit that the Lord has planted us to produce. You think of all the great tasting entrées and food dishes that can be created using the many different fruit and vegetable varieties, and with this you start seeing the part God intended each of us to play in the big picture of the Church. Now, can you imagine ketchup not having tomatoes and the various spices mixed in? It would not be ketchup at all, and with this example, you can see how important each of our roles are in the overall makeup of the Church. What if your plant does not produce fruit or dies, because of the weeds growing and tangling up your roots? Would God’s plan for your life produce the required fruits needed for the Lord’s entrée, used in feeding the Church body and the Kingdom of God?
In this blog posting, the weed is sin, and a weed grows twice as fast as the good plant it is attempting to entangle and cut off, and therefore the plant (you) that God has established for His Kingdom garden. The importance of de-weeding yourself cannot be stressed enough, yet many ignore the weeds and think that their plant (themselves) will be able to produce the fruit or vegetable required in all abundance, while letting the weeds grow along side of the good plant, but this will not be the end case. Some weeds may seem small, but they will grow and they will stop the plant from growing to full maturity by cutting off the nutrients and life giving water the plant needs for abundant growth and fruit production.
The Correlation Between Weeds And Sin
- Weed: Starts from a small seed.
- Sin: Starts from a small sinful thought or action having a sinful motive.
- Weed: Grows quickly when fed and not removed.
- Sin: Grows to full blown maturity, when its practice is not stopped and taken to the Lord for removal.
- Weed: Will grow, corrupt, and destroy the plant it is entangling.
- Sin: Will grow, corrupt, and destroy the character and life of the individual affected.
- Weed: Can grow so tall that it cuts off the sun, an important ingredient, from reaching the good plant for it to grow and thrive.
- Sin: Can get so full blown that it cuts us off completely from the Son of God - A reprobate mind.
- Weed: Stops the flow of nutrients and life giving water to the good plant, inhibiting fruit production and can possibly kill the plant altogether.
- Sin: Stops the flow of God’s Word being produced in your life, and chokes off your root in the Lord, therefore stopping growth in your spiritual walk with Jesus and eventually ends the fruits of the Holy Spirit in your life.
If we do not de-weed ourselves of sin and protect ourselves with the Word of God, the enemy will come and plant the seed of sin in our lives to cutoff our growth and production, and if the weeds are already present, he will manifest them and exploit them in order to choke you off from the Kingdom of God, leaving you barren, non-producing, and never reaching your full maturity in the Lord, so brothers and sisters in Christ, start de-weeding and become all you can be for the Lord!
James 1:21-25 NIV
21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
Blessings,
Christopher Moss
I am a vessel of the Holy Spirit.
A vessel is useless unless it is filled, and a vessel can do nothing as of itself, so as this vessel is poured out, I pen its contents as it flows. - Christopher Moss
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