The Seeds of the Heart

I am a plant nut! Planting and growing things is a marvelous avocation for me. If you want to see me act like a little kid, take me to a commercial greenhouse. I can spend virtual hours meandering through the rows, looking at all the plants. Boy, would this be neat to have in the backyard! But in making that statement I have overlooked something very significant.
Maintaining these greenhouses involves hard and time consuming work.

In many ways, our heart is like a greenhouse. Consider your thoughts as seeds, which grow in the fertile soil of our heart. Some thoughts become beautiful flowers that enrich our lives and the lives of those we love. These seeds come in a wide range of varieties...love, joy, and hope. These seeds produce good fruit in our lives. Other seeds become weeds…doubt, resentment, selfishness. These seeds breed insecurity and fill us with displeasure. Like the greenhouse, our hearts have to be managed. Ignore the weeds and before too long they will take over. Look around you, there are evidences of this everywhere you look.

Ever wonder why some people can resist negativism and remain patient? Could it be that they have sown seeds of goodness and are enjoying the harvest? Why do others have such a sour outlook? Why such a gloomy attitude? You would be that way too if the greenhouse of your heart was filled with weeds and thorns.

The Bible states it this way, “Do not be deceived…whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)

If your life is like mine, I have to work every day to pull the weeds, so that the good fruit that the Holy Spirit wants to manifest in me can thrive.