“DEAD LEAVES!”

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 433
July 9, 2019///

Break off those dead leaves!!

We have two good sized plants in our kitchen window. Yesterday as I noticed the green and healthy look of the plants, I also notice that there were one or two dead and brown leaves.

These brown leaves were taking away the beauty of the green plants. I broke off and threw away the dead leaves and the plants looked vibrant and were a blessing to look at.

May I tell you that in our spiritual walk with the Lord God Almighty we are like the plants. We may look green and healthy in most of our walk in this thing we call life, but each of us from time to time have dead leaves that are taking away from others seeing Jesus and His goodness through us.

These dead leaves can take the form of pride, jealousy, bad attitudes and grouchy spirits. They can take the form of neglect of time with the Creator God by being to busy to pray and study the Bible and sit in the presences of the giver of life.

These dead leaves can take the form of wrong motives and finding fault and snapping at our family, friends, or cashiers, etc.

Think with me of the dead leaves you would get rid of if Jesus, in the form of a human were right by your side.

How would you act instead of reacting? How much of your conversation would be different than you find it is now?

May I tell you that Jesus tells us in His Word:

John 14:18-20 (KJV)
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

As our Savior and Lord, Jesus is with us always and all around us. He is with us!!

Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So I implore you to understand that when we walk around with dead leaves type things in our lives that are ugly, rebellious and not projecting a loving Father God, we are for sure not showing to the World the “Lamb of God”, who paid it all!!

Sometimes without even realizing it we let our desire to be right override our desire to be right with God.

I love the statement: “God don’t like ugly!”

God created us and knows us and Loves us with all our faults and failures, but He Loves us too much to leave us that way. We are a work in progress and if we allow Him, He will pull all the dead leaves from our lives!

Hebrews 12:1 (KJV)
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

I encourage you today to look with me at our actions, attitudes and motivations. If our actions are not born from the Love of God and our motives are not to lift Him up, we need to repent, pull off those dead leaves and let the Holy Spirit do the changes in us that are needed!
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Father, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I come. I ask you to examine each of our motives and actions and pull off the dead leaves, the things that do not Glorify you, and let us live as a vessel of Honor to you our Savior and Lord! Amen!

Pull off the dead leaves!
Love, MeMaw