Just a little something to collect my thoughts. Just a little place to be real. Life is sweet. Life is hard. And life is everywhere in between. This is where i share pieces (sometimes very raw) of this journey that is my life . . .

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Stop that Tree!

So there is this tree in my back yard and being that God knows me better than I know myself he knows to speak to me through pictures, metaphors and life. Thus was one tree in my back yard. 
This tree is just off of my back patio and is a pretty nice tree EXCEPT one thing. It makes me sick! It seems to grow something that my body does not like not to mention the mess it makes on the patio. So Sarah and I attacked it and although not without our own injuries, we cut down the three large branches that came out of the trunk. After all of that work however, we decided the rest would wait. I don't have a very good chainsaw  and I was exhausted but happy with my progress. That was a couple of months ago. Not being the gardener type I had no thought to the fact that it would go crazy replacing each of those branches with what seems like 200 new ones. I haven’t had the time nor have I had the energy to address it so I always say next weekend! And every weekend there is something else. Both for me to do and sprouting out of the tree. I haven’t been too worried about it but today I realized that they were beginning to get to the point at which I will not be able to reach them.


And then DING DING DING! 
That is what I have seen happening so clearly in my life over the past couple of years. I went and had God do some major cutting of bad things out of my life. But not everything could happen at that one time or place or season. God called me to continue to take down those old strongholds and lies even as I have moved from season to season. I did well for a while, chipping away. Then I got a little more busy. Or I lost the strong support I had. But i kept the new sprouts trimmed back as soon as I saw them. Then before I knew it I was so busy and self sufficient that I ignored the tree that was my life. And It was overgrown with old and new things that I did not want.
Just like the tree in my back yard, God was showing me that I need to get back to work. That this life of walking straight is not just about cutting down the big things but to getting rid of the places that they spring from. The good news is that its not too late. It will be harder than if I would have kept it up BUT it will be easier than if I put it off until tomorrow. Thank goodness we have Gods grace to help us and a hope for a future full of life springing from the source of all life!
When God shows you something to cut out of your life . . . cut it out and keep it gone. If not before you know it you are back in a jungle of ugly sin.

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