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If you have tried to maintain a vegetable garden, flower garden, lawn, cropland, pasture or park, you know about weeds. You didn't plant them-they just showed up!
Weeds have been a universal problem since Adam and Eve rebelled and God
cursed the ground with "thorns and thistles" (Genesis 3:17-19). And there
is a parallel problem. Just as soil left bare quickly becomes infested
with weeds, mankind's spiritual nakedness has been dominated by noxious
and obnoxious "weeds"-the many selfish and sinful traits of human
nature.
Problems with "noxious weeds" (plants, shrubs and trees that are destructive, competitive and/or difficult to control) help us understand our sinful actions and attitudes. Weeds aggressively displace and crowd out desirable plants. Their roots rob neighboring plants of vital water and nutrients. Their foliage blocks out needed sunshine. Many are poisonous to wildlife and livestock. And weeds often spread invasively and rapidly.
A garden that is neglected will produce weeds rather than fruits and vegetables. Likewise, human nature has a tendency to produce weeds of evil rather than good fruit. And those weeds are a continuing threat to our spiritual survival!
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