Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Weeds

"Weeds"...it's not even a pleasant sounding word...like Rhododendron or Lily or Elm.  What is a weed and when is a weed not a flower?  Basically weeds are plants that people don't like.  They're considered a nuisance.  But I would suggest that weeds are in some ways superior to the plants we humans favor.  When flash floods ravage the earth and leave the ground vulnerable to erosion where are the tulips and pansies then?  Only the unsightly, unplanted (by human hands), unpretty (for the most part) weeds will come in to populate the bare ground and hold things together.  Why, if weeds weren't part of our environment we'd probably need an army of full-time planters to hold the ground together and save valuable nutrients and minerals from bleaching out or washing away.  And since not all of us are great at maintaining a lawn, at least the weeds make it green and hold the whole thing together until we can get some help.  So I'm grateful for weeds and I even think that we can be weeds sometimes.  We can find ourselves planted in a bare area (unfriendly neighborhood, cold workplace, silent carpool, etc.) and find that the Lord has a role for us to hold things together and give Him a chance to work in a deeper way.  Just think of yourself at those times as a weed for the Lord.  Who knows what might flower as a result!
 
A very special kind of weed probably had a role on the day Jesus died.
 
John 19:2 "The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head."
 
blessings,
Rob Smith

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