My yard is a weed patch.  It wasn’t always this way.  After the severe drought of two years ago, everyone told me to fertilize and re-seed.  My response still reverberates in my own hollow head: “Ahh, it will grow back.”

It grew back, alright.  But this time it was full of weeds.  What happened?  The truth of the matter is lawn grasses require care.  Weeds simply come from the four winds.  They grow with no trouble at all.  They require no maintenance.

Our spiritual lives are that way, aren’t they?  We go through times of drought when we are wrung out by the circumstances of life.  If we are listening for the voice of God, if we are focused on His Word, if we are spending time with Him, these can be times of great victory in our lives.  But, if we trust these times to just work out, the Adversary will sow weeds into our lives and they will flourish.  When they do, only the Weed & Feed of God’s grace will remove them.

I should have known better.  You see, I’ve been through those times of drought in my life.  I knew how important it was and is to be on guard, to include the proper disciplines.

Now, there has to be a bag of Weed & Feed around here somewhere.  If not, there’s always Lowes.