A Theology of Weeds
I pulled weeds this morning and I was thinking:
1. Sin is like weeds. You don't plant weeds but they grow, and fast. Similarly you don't plant sins in a child's heart, and yet they grow and fast because they have propensity for it.
2. Weeds take the nutrients away from the plants. Instead of the plants taking the nutrients for their growth, the weeds compete for them and used it to grow themselves. Similarly sin took valuable time away from God, Eph 5:16 and use this time to propagate itself until the whole man is choke out by sin and die (spiritually lost his vibrancy or even literally die physically). This does not take eternal life away but does take enjoyment of it. Matt 13:22
3. Sometimes in pulling weeds, I pulled some plants with them because the weeds' fibrous root system interlocked with the plants'. This reminds me of the grace of God in leaving the tares and wheat together in this inter-advent age. I would have been worried that if the servants pulled weeds/tares now, they will be talking to each other: "What do you think? This Dante here looks like a tare. I cannot distinguish him from the wheat, better pull them together with the other tares." I would have been done for.
4. I also thought that I wish my hair are like weeds- they grow fast and healthy.
5. Finally while I round up my thoughts on weeds, I was reminded: D**n you Adam! I wouldn't be pulling weeds if it wasn't for you. Gen 3:17-19
(Kung gusto ninyo ng karagdagang impormasyon, bisitahin ninyo kami. May pagtitipon kami sa Dahat, kada Linggo, alas 8:30-10:30 am. Sa Amoguis, 1:00-3:00 pm. Sana manampalataya kayo at kita-kita tayo.)
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