Have you ever grown a garden? Have you planted a flower bed with multiple flowers? Have you spent time tilling the ground to prepare it to be planted? Have you pulled the weeds that grow in the flower bed? How frustrating is it that they seem to keep coming back?
Weeds and grass seem to grow everywhere. It pops up in some of the least expected and desirable places. We pull weeds from the flower bed. We spray our gravel driveways, the cracks in the sidewalk, and maybe even our flower beds to kill the weeds. They keep coming back.
We know the seeds float on the wind and get blown everywhere. All it takes is a little moisture and just enough nutrients for the seed to sprout…and the weeds show up. The same paradigm applies to our human nature. All it takes is the seed of a negative thought to enter our minds and it isn’t long before it sprouts into a bad attitude. It only takes someone to suggest going out for a conversation and a drink to sprout into a drunken night out. It only takes the tender touch of someone else’s hand on ours to start us down the road of infidelity.
It is not until we have the attitude of Jesus that we can resist these temptations. Only when we realize Satan is planting those seeds and remain committed to Jesus that we have the strength to say no, to turn away from the temptations. Jesus knows all Satan’s tricks. He knows we need Him to resist. He knows we will fail sometimes. He came so that we might have forgiveness for those failures.
I pray we all realize Satan continually sows bad seeds in our minds. I pray we commit to Jesus. I pray each one of us will lean on Jesus to resist the temptations Satan sends our way. Recognize the seeds Satan sows. Commit to Jesus. Ask Him to help you resist the temptations. Stand in the strength of Jesus.
Matthew 13:24-25 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.”
Marty Pressey 