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Watering flowers
I was watering my flowers this morning and as I turned on the faucet, I noticed a small leak in the water hose. Where the trickle of water was hitting the ground, there is a weed growing much taller and faster than the flowers! It is a tiny trickle of water that only leaks when I turn on the faucet a few times a week, yet that weed is out performing the flowers!!
I think that is a picture of our lives. I knew there was a tiny leak, but I was not aware of the impact it had on my flower bed! The parts of my life that I feed and nurture are the parts that grow stronger and faster and eventually, take control! All of us need to be very careful of the things that we feed.
I have heard it said that the choices we make are far more powerful than our circumstances! Our lives are complicated and messy, but we allow those complications and messes to enter our lives and, if we are not very careful, they will control us! We lose focus on the simple plan that God has for our lives! We have the power to simplify our lives. God expects us to assume responsibility for our lives and to carefully choose how we spend our time. Get rid of the foolish, worldly things that distract us from God’s purpose for our life. Spend time with Godly things, in God’s house, with God’s people! None of the people in God’s houses of worship are perfect, but those of us in worship services are saved sinners, grateful for God’s unending grace and mercy!! Come join us!!!
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.” Proverbs 3: 5-7 (KJV)
Brinda Blair
Magee, MS
