4/5 days a week my team has been weeding at our ministries. This was really discouraging at first, because I felt like we weren’t actually helping and I was confused why I had come all this way to pull weeds. God didn’t wait long to humble me and change my thinking. He has showed me that for some of these ministry’s that run really well on their own the best way we can serve them is to be out of the way and do small jobs in the background. It’s also been a good lesson about how the plain and mundane are still ways to serve and how living life on mission isn’t just for far off missions trips but for everywhere you go. For home, for vacation, or even for grandmas house. A lot of the things we do to serve here we can also do at home. You don’t have to go across the world to start living life on mission because life is your mission field. God has also been using our time weeding to open doors to lots of conversations where our team gets to minister to each other and bond. So it’s pretty dope on a rope that we get to go and help them, but also get so much out of it as well. God in his infinite awesomeness has been giving me some great weeding analogies.
One day we were weeding and the day before it had rained to the soil was soft and we were pulling those suckers up with no problem at all, almost effortlessly. Then another day, I guess it had been a while since it had rained, the soil was so hard it felt nearly impossible to pull those things up. And God was like “that’s the same way with your heart.” If you keep a soft heart, it is so much easier when a “weed” starts to grow for it to be pulled out and get all the roots. But if you’re heart is hardened and a “weed” pops up, it’s going to be nearly impossible to completely rid your heart of that. Your weeds can be anything from jealousy, to anger, to unforgiveness, to lust, etc.
And then another time while we were weeding there were some pretty little flowers and as I pulled them up I was kind of sad that I had to get rid of them. And God was like “Selina that’s so real, sometimes weeds are pretty and attractive, sometimes they try to disguise themselves as real “flowers”. And it makes it hard to choose to rid your heart of them.” And the more I thought about if the more I was like dang ok God, true facts! And that’s how God has used weeding to open my eyes to see more than just weeds.
