Weekly Devotional

7/29/2004

It's amazing how fast a garden can be overgrown by weeds. I had recently pulled out all the weeds and took care of my flowers. But pretty soon it lost its “Garden of Eden” appearance and looked more like the Amazon rain forest.

Well I finished cleaning it up and it looks nice and tidy again. It really is a good exercise for the body to run around with the lawn mower on a hot summer day.

Listening to the news broadcast on TV, made me realize that the world is actually like a big garden filled with flowers and weeds.
The flowers are the people who live peacefully, trying to make the world a beautiful place to live in.
The weeds on the other hand are those who deliberately try to ruin it.
There is a lot of weed nowadays. People who blow themselves up taking along hundreds of innocent people. They are beheading people , just killing for their beliefs or ideals. Christians who are mistreating their brothers and sisters.
You need more than a lawn mower here.
The world has gone crazy; it looks like we're in the middle of a thriller. No Oscars to be won however! It's a grave situation.

Jesus said that there will come a day when He will send His angels to remove the weeds from this world. He will create a beautiful new world where only peace and love will reign.
Are you ready for it? Let's clean up our own spiritual backyard and make it adorable to Him. Get rid of lies, hate, gossip, mistreating people. You name it! The weeds have a name you know.

Give water to your flowers deep inside and spread the incense of Gods pure holy love.

And pray for all people! I'm sure you'll get a free ride to that wondrous new world.

Love Monique