Getting Rid of the Weeds in Your Life

Sometimes you have to get rid of the weeds in your life. I thought about this one Sunday morning.

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Getting rid of weeds in our lives

It was a typical Sunday morning after Church.  Pulling into the driveway of our house, I got out of the car and proceeded to do what I do 30% of the time. I spent a few seconds pulling weeds off of the plants that line my driveway.  I do it because, if you are not careful, they will take over.

Weed and people behavior

The behavior of one of these weeds grabbed my attention.  It starts at the bottom and wraps its way to the top of the plant.  As I pulled the weed away, I thought about people who behave like those weeds.  They wrap themselves around you while you do all the work, but it looks like they are doing it too. You come in early and they come in late but they work with you. They take long breaks while you work and at the end of the day, they get an unfair portion of the credit. There does come a point where we have to do some weeding.

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If you do not look too closely, you can’t tell the difference to the weed and the plant. And if you wait too long, it will be too late because the weeds will take over. That’s why I occasionally stop and pull them out.  Also, it is pretty easy to know when to pull the green weeds, but the people-weeds are a different story. Jesus could have cut Judas a loose anytime and Paul could have ostracized Mark anytime, however, they did it at specific times.

When to pull weeds

So when do you do it. When do you have a meeting of the minds that may result in separation? Two considerations might help with this question.  First, if there are more weeds than plants then it may be time to do some pulling. Second, if you are being disrespected by the powers that be, then it might be time to draw you line in the sand. Thirdly, if the work is being hindered then it may be time to do some pulling. Maybe you have been relied on too much and it is time for others to be responsible.

In the hope that it will be, let me relate a personal habit that I have on this subject. I don’t always know that the decisions that I make are God’s will. There are some people who declare that they know and they know absolutely, and God bless ‘em. I don’t always know but I almost always try to move according to His will, therefore, when I make decisions that I am uncertain about, I ask God to take my uncertain decisions and make them good. That means that I accept whatever changes He wants to make with them and I believe He does. In fact I know He does because all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and I do love Him.

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28.)