The Garden of Your Soul

It is true what they said, “The grass is greener on the other side of the fence”, but you still have to mow it! Spring is in the air. The grass is getting greener, the flowers are blooming, the trees are putting on leaves; and of course there are weeds. I am not sure where weeds come from each year. My yard did not have weeds last fall when I stopped mowing, but now weeds are everywhere. It is as if when you are not looking the weed fairy sneaks onto your yard and drops their weed seeds into your soil and then wait for rain. Before you know it WEEDS EVERYWHERE!!!

That is the way life is, if you don’t pay attention to your spiritual growth daily, the spiritual weeds of life will sneak in and grow in the garden of your soul. Most of people who strive to follow Jesus have to pray and work at becoming more like Jesus on a daily basis. We have to focus on being: loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle and self-controlled. Those attributes don’t just come to most of us naturally. We have to pray for them and work on them daily.

It is when we get spiritually lazy or distracted that we loose focus on those things that draw us closer to Jesus. So my fellow Christ follower – get the weeds out of your life! Jesus said, “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” It is time for spring gardening, make sure the stuff growing in the garden of your soul is spiritual fruit and water it daily.

Love God. Go Love Others.