changes

don't you just love the seasons? you have a gradual change from the cold of winter to the cool and refreshing of spring, then to the heat of summer(most in Texas know alot about summer as it takes up 9 month of the yr....lol, to the season known for change...Autumn! wonders abound, leaves change to different hues as the start to die and fall. but theres something funny about round here, not all the trees shed there leaves, some cling on to the last seasons foliage. resistant to change, refusing to let what they have to die. do you think those trees know that it makes way for new leaves, or rather new life. maybe they are comfortable, afraid maybe? That's kinda how i view our walk of faith, as a tree in autumn. we have all of these leaves, ( or carnal desires)and we've had them for the entire season of our life. they are comfortable, we cling to them. then the season changes, Christ enters our life. we are so enamored with the promise and the relief of our burdens, but only a few leaves fall. we find ourselves clinging to what we know instead of letting Jesus prune our death from us. now I'm not tring to imply that we are blatantly doing every sinful thing we can think of, but I'm talking about those Lil "no one knows" or "its so hard"s. like for me i used to smoke,(its been 6 mths...yea!!!) but that is one of the leaves that i dropped (might have been a branch) but i have no desire whats soever for one. but on other things like cursing, its hard to stop, iknow its not good and i know i need to stop,but i cling to it. with the wrong emotions it comes out. our carnal selves cling to carnal desires. so what can we do? we do whats hard for every man....ask directions. god gave us a map, instruction manual and a great example. with every word we take in in ernest, Jesus prunes more of our leaves. until we are bare, then we are "set apart" from the others. our winter.... cold and lonely with respect to the world. but (and I'm talking from texas view point here) it doesn't last long, soon we'll be filled with new life, and will be brighter than the ones who held onto the leaves of their former season. its one way to look at it any way. its kind of what i have to keep in mind, that god aint finished with me yet, and I'm really glad he has a lot of patience.
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