Is it a weed seed?

Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life. (Galatians 6:7-8)

Tricked, deceived, deluded, fooled, misguided - regardless of the word we use, the meaning is all the same. When we are 'misled' down any path, we reveal quite foolish choices that lead to very foolish actions. We cannot plant one seed and expect a different harvest. Seeds bear the fruit they were created to bear - period! Ignore God's wisdom to avoid such paths that lead to sinful actions, and we will reap the consequences of those actions. Can a man really claim to be 'ignorant' of his choices? He may be 'uneducated' or 'uninformed', but even those 'excuses' are without excuse. God makes a way for each of us to be more than adequately 'informed' and 'educated' through the wisdom that comes in his Word, through the prompts of the Holy Spirit, and even in the example of others who follow Christ. We can attempt to make excuses for our sinful actions, but we are all really without excuse.

I don't know about you, but I want more than a crop of weeds to lay at God's feet. I want good crops - like kindness, understanding, forgiveness, grace, and peace to be the 'crops' that emanate from my life. Does that mean I never see a weed or two creeping through? Nope, it just means I allow God's Spirit to show me where the weeds are growing, helping me to 'pluck them right up' and rid my 'garden' of their presence. A weed is a pretty accurate description of sin. A weed is a 'wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants'. According to Wikipedia, a "weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation" because it grows where it is in direct "conflict with human preferences, needs, or goals". In most cases, these are plants with characteristics that make them "hazardous, aesthetically unappealing, difficult to control in managed environments, or otherwise unwanted" in one's garden, farm, or other 'planted area'. 

Thinking upon that definition a bit, we might begin to consider some of the choices we have been making as a little too 'weed productive' in their outcomes. Those actions are producing unwanted outcomes that are in direct conflict with our needs and God's preferences. Maybe it is time God does a bit of 'weeding' in our garden. If so, don't resist because the 'crop' produced when the weeds are finally ousted will delight you more than you will ever know. Just sayin!