Mold

My beautiful plant has been losing all of it leaves.  I thought I was doing it a favor by bringing it inside during the beginning of winter, but the leaves have been dropping like crazy.  The new leaves come in, and the old leaves fall.  It is looking very sickly.  I have been meaning to move the plant outside, but one thing after another happened and it has now been a whole month, and my plant finally went out today.  I can just imagine the plant taking in the sun and saying finally!  Now there was another thing I did not do, and that was to clear away all the old leaves from under the branches.  So as I sat the plant outside, I took a moment and scooped up all the dead leaves.  Oh did they smell.  They had begun to mildew.  

Ahaa!  This was the cause of my plants demise.  Mold.  I hope that it will be fine, but I thought how does this  look in the spiritual side of life.  I thought how often we tend to let a layer of old thoughts and teaching pile up at our roots.  We don’t take the old things that are incorrect and move them totally out of our lives, instead we let them sit underneath our leaves as they gather mold.  This very mold will destroy any new life we have come into our life.  So take a moment, go and sit in the presence of the Son, and scoop away all the incorrect teaching, and make room for all the wonderful things the Father has for you.