Rev. Ray and Pat Amos
Genesis 3:17-19
“…cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread.”
“PULLING THE WEEDS”
We have been so blessed by many who helped us make our house a home. You have truly helped make a miracle of love and grace. As I was watering the flowers and pulling a stem of crabgrass here and there in the flower bed I silently thanked the Lord for the men who dug and tilled, tilled and dug, pulled, and pulled more crabgrass roots than you can imagine. Since then, it is a daily task to keep it out, but we have managed to do so.
That got me to thinking about the task of keeping the weeds of sin out of our lives. It took Jesus on Calvary’s cross to remove the sin from the garden of our heart. That was a miracle of grace that is best described in a song:
“My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought
My sin, not in part but the whole
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul.”
The sin in our lives was like a tangled, deep rooted, mess of crabgrass. Another song says:
“Something beautiful, something good
All my confusion He understood
All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife
But he made something beautiful of my life.”
There is a reason that Jesus taught us to pray each day, “Forgive us our trespasses…” The crabgrass of sin keeps trying to return. If we do not keep it under control, we will be right back in the mess we once were in. A daily watering of our faith, and pulling the sprouts of sin by the roots, will help maintain the beauty of the Christian faith, and the witness of what God can do with a tangled life of sin.
We once said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is also true that pulling a sinful sprout today is easier than digging and pulling by the sweat of the brow tomorrow.
Grace and Peace, Rev Ray
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It Is Well With My Soul
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Something Beautiful, Something Good
