Unshackled Echo ~ June 21, 2019 ~ Those Pesky Little Weeds

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. 

- C.S. Lewis

I came across the above quote this morning, and it struck me as simple but profound. It's far too easy to believe that some things we allow aren't that bad or that we have them under control and thereby excuse ourselves from having to deal with something that we truly have little or no control over or ability to stop on our own. Those little weeds that we can pretend don't detract from the garden because it's just too much effort to get down to pulling them, or they do have little flowers on them, so they're not too bad and kind of enjoyable. But if we get down to saying truly that we want nothing in our garden outside of what God has planted and try to stop or limit even those not so bad sins we see how really difficult it is to resist those actions and reactions that we have been allowing. That's when we get a clear picture of how much we truly need grace to have any hope of being able to walk with God. It's not in letting the little things go that we find the power and meaning of grace, but in trying and failing to remove every tare from the field.

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June 21, 2016.

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