CHOKING ON THORNS - We can't serve two masters because we'll end up hating one of them. If we nurture the thorns in our hearts, they will strangle our productivity and effectiveness as Christians and we'll never have a mature faith. Jesus used the analogy of thorny weeds for worldly treasures and earthly worries that choke the growth of God's Word in our hearts. Just as a gardener must regularly pull up the thorns in his garden, we must identify and pull up the thorns in our hearts. - Thorny weeds: they have no value, but they steal space, water, sunlight, and soil nutrients from plants. The bigger they get, the harder they are to pull out. No wonder Jesus used this analogy for worldly treasures and earthly worries that choke the growth of God's Word in our hearts. “Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.” Those are strong words ... and true. We can't serve two masters because we'll end up hating one of them. If we nurture the thorns in our hearts, they will strangle our productivity and effectiveness as Christians and we'll never have a mature faith. Just as a gardener must regularly pull up the thorns in his garden, we must identify and pull up the thorns in our hearts. Are you willing to do some "weeding" today? We can't serve two masters because we'll end up hating one of them.

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Are You Choking on Thorns?

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We can't serve two masters because we'll end up hating one of them. If we nurture the thorns in our hearts, they will strangle our productivity and effectiveness as Christians and we'll never have a mature faith. Jesus used the analogy of thorny weeds for worldly treasures and earthly worries that choke the growth of God's Word in our hearts. Just as a gardener must regularly pull up the thorns in his garden, we must identify and pull up the thorns in our hearts.
Gail Burton Purath

 

Thorny weeds: they have no value, but they steal space, water, sunlight, and soil nutrients from plants.

The bigger they get, the harder they are to pull out. 

No wonder Jesus used this analogy for worldly treasures and earthly worries that choke the growth of God's Word in our hearts (Matthew 13:7; and verse 22). 

“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.” 1 John 2:15

Those are strong words ... and true.

We can't serve two masters because we'll end up hating one of them (Matthew 6:24).

If we nurture the thorns in our hearts, they will strangle our productivity and effectiveness as Christians and we'll never have a mature faith.

Just as a gardener must regularly pull up the thorns in his garden, we must identify and pull up the thorns in our hearts.

Are you willing to do some "weeding" today? 

Hi!  I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but

since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!
I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

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