Mowing? Or Weeding?

When caring for your yard or garden, there are two ways to eliminate the plants that you do not want to be a part of your yard.

First, there is the quick mowing. Mowing does not kill any weeds or grass in your yard, it only chops off the tops of them to give the appearance of a nicely trimmed lawn. You may mow with your mowing device on the lowest possible setting, but in a few weeks all those weeds and blades of grass will faithfully spring up to annoy you again!

Weeding, however, is a different concept altogether. In strategic places of your land (such as a vegetable or flower garden) you may “weed” the annoying plants instead of just mowing over them. Weeding involves finding the roots of the bad plant and completely destroying it, so that it never returns again. Weeding is a little tougher than mowing though. While you can just do a quick job with a riding or push mower, weeding takes a little more effort.

In our lives there are weeds that we would like to see gone. We sometimes ask God to remove the bad or annoying blemishes in our character. As we make these requests, a lot of times we expect instant results. We want God to simply remove the visible results of the weeds that are in our lives (similar to just mowing over the weeds in your yard). However, God knows that if he just does a “quick mow job” those things won’t be truly gone. God is not interested in a surface deep work in your life. He wants to really dig in there and completely destroy the ugly things from the roots up. Sometimes God’s weeding process takes more time than we have the patience for. It almost seems like God is ignoring our request. This is not true! God is simply doing the best work possible in your life. Trust him for the answer.

 

-AaronU 15