Weeds, Weeds and More Weeds

It's that time of the year, the green is starting to poke its head up out of the deadness of the winter cold and with the green green grass of home comes weeds.

Yep, those undesirables that seem to never go away.

You can't eat them, they have no value and if left unchecked will take over crowding out the good vegetation.

No matter how much you have weed-eated and sprayed Round Up or whatever your favorite herbicide is back before the frosts hit, and no matter how cold it got, here they come.

Weeds, weeds and more weeds.

The wise man of the ages made a startling statement that well defines what went terribly wrong.
 

"They made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Song of Sol. 1:6

Solomon is being transparent here in his discourse when he says he was handed the whole kingdom by Divine design yet in it all he allowed his personal life to get out of hand.

He could rule the kingdom, form an army second to none, and develop urban renewal like never before with his expertise and there be no weeds, he was a good garden keeper.

But in his confession here, he couldn't keep the weeds out of his own garden.

The very thing he prayed for in his innocent and humble beginnings went awry.
 

He had prayed that he not be given poverty lest he be tempted to steal nor riches lest he forget the Lord but rather be fed with convenient bread.

In other words, he just wanted his basic needs supplied.

Keep a good personal garden, weed free.

Good prayer, but no follow up.

He failed in keeping what he had been given.

But he was not the Lone Ranger here.

It's happened to countless more down through time.

Far too many would also forget the original setting and mandate of not keeping what had been given.

You don't have to plant weeds, they just show up.

You don't have to cultivate wrong doings, it's just a part of human nature, a gift from the genetic pool of Adam and Eve.

Undesirables somehow find a way of presenting themselves in all of our lives in the most unlikely places..

You're driving down the road at night and you're meeting an oncoming car with the headlights on high beam.

Seeing they are not going to dim them, you ask for dim by briefly hitting your high beam.

They keep coming with high beam blinding you.

Without thinking BAM, you hit the high beam and the two of you pass blinded.

Why did you just do that?

That was a weed that sprang up out of nowhere.

A man is sitting in a waiting room and in walks a seductive looking woman.

Without thinking twice his manly instincts kicked into place and _________________.

You can fill in the blank.

Why?

Because weeds, weeds and more weeds.

It's human nature and we have to daily weed our garden.

The admonition of Paul:

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." Rom. 12:1
 

The only problem of a living sacrifice is it keeps crawling off the altar.

And is why you have to run it down and put it back on the altar.

The same apostle confessed and said he had to die daily as far as his Adamic nature goes.

Weeds, weeds and more weeds.

So, with all the above being said, just keep your garden hoe handy and just know.

You never outgrow your need for milk and weeding.

Weeds, weeds and more weeds.

God bless you and God bless America.