A Heart Unattended is Like a Garden Overgrown with Weeds
Weeds are like sin in the garden of our hearts, and like weeds, when sin entangles our hearts we need to address its presence and potential power to overrun our lives, taking captive in its wake the potential fruit bearing parts of our lives, where God desires to use us for His glory. The human heart is deceitful above all things and is in desperate need of the pruning effect of the word of God. Psalm 17:4 says that the Word keeps us from the paths of the destroyer. However, the worries of life have the potential to choke out the Word making it unfruitful . If we allow it, sin will seize an opportunity in our lives just like the opportunistic qualities of the thistle. Thistle is prevalent throughout the landscape but as a gardener manages it consistently and chooses to declare all out war on the thistle, with great resolve, then overtime, it can be overcome by the the good soil and fruitful plants in the garden. If thistle is left unattended like the sin in our own