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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