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Sowing Temptation

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 It's hard to believe that April is over. April is one of my favorite months. What once started as a childish love for Birthday gifts and celebration has turned into the love of all things Spring, purple, flowery, and sweet. April means the end of winter (at least for the most part) and gardens, new life, and sweet smells. There is nothing like the feeling of beginning again, starting over and starting fresh. Spring brings us that joy every year. And God brings us that joy every time we come to repent our sins to him. As this Spring starts and everything is fresh and clean I want to be careful what kind of seeds I plant, lest I reap thorns and thistles in my life come fall. 

Sowing Temptation


As the brambles make their way
You fight and pull and tell them nay
“My life is mine, you cannot take
What took me twenty years to make”

The seething, slithering soul of it all
Makes no noise, no note, or call,
It wraps and winds it’s prickly hand
Until my soul can no longer expand

I buck and kick with all my might
I’ve never worked harder to win a fight
If now I loosen a little slack
That gruntled mess will push me too far back

As my grasp slips away
My feeble mind begins to pray
 Twas not the devil after all
But God’s sweet, conscience beckoning call

“Do not fight against me Child,
Tis me, not you, whose been defiled.
Forget your selfish hopes and dreams
Kneel at my feet and be redeemed!”

I blink and wonder at the sight
Is this the God I’ve tried to fight?
No match in heaven or earth is there
 No glory, might or strength compares

How blind and foolish my soul has been 
To bind my soul to the devil again
Humbled and lowly I approach the Father
And lay out my sins just as they were

Nothing I keep, nothing I hide
I hand over my selfish heart full of pride
His love is so pure, strong, and divine
I can feel my weight lifted, no longer mine

A brighter, cleaner  path to follow
Without the seething stench of woe
But careful must I be in every little deed
Lest I sow my fate along the way by planting prickly seeds. 
Galatians 6:8 
"For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life."
How have you planted stumbling blocks in the past? How can you plant beautiful things this Spring? What helps you along life's journey? What hinders you?

Sarah
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