June is such a pretty month, everything is green, flowers are blooming, the temperature is nice. A wonderful time to experience God’s beauty. But have you ever noticed a beautiful flower bed can turn into an eyesore with one weed? It is the same with a church. You can have a great congregation with wonderful people, but if you get one weed that weed can ruin the church.

Sometimes we get a little high minded and we think we are better than everyone else, maybe we have been saved longer, we have been a member longer, we have more money, we are older or we hold a position in the church. You know what that makes us? Weeds in the flower bed.
Acts 10:34 “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
Now if God is no respecter of persons, then we have no right to be. In His eyes we are all children, one loved just like the next one. The young and the old, the rich and the poor, the long-term member and the new ones to church are all flowers in one flower bed.
It is very easy to get wrapped up in our own importance, I know I have done it, but we can not give enough, do enough, sing enough, preach enough, come to church enough or work on committees enough for God to put us ahead of another Christian.
So, answer me how we can do it if God doesn’t? Yes, we are all guilty of it. A lot of people may feel I am the weed in the flower bed. They may think I don’t do enough, visit enough, pray enough, pamper you all enough but let me ask you, what are you doing? Are you treating me different because I am the pastor? Do you expect more out of me than you do yourself? IF so, are you the flower or the weed?
To keep the weeds out is a full-time job, we can be walking to the car to come to church and if Wanda sees a weed she has to pull it. Are you working on keeping your weeds out? Do you love God, your family, your church family like Christ loves them or do you consider them weeds? If you can not read your Bible, attend church, take part in what is going on in church, take into your heart the messages God gives me to speak, take your ministry outside of this building, talk to your neighbors and friends about Christ, Then, you will turn into a weed, just something to take up space while ruining the looks of the flowerbed.
If we are going to be a Christ centered church we have to look to Christ as our example, not the preacher, the deacons, the guy that sits beside us or the ladies on the back row. Stop looking at who a person is and how he does things, look to Christ, He has the answers. We can all be flowers in God’s army, we have a choice. But we also have the choice of being a weed. What is your choice? Do you want to be the weed that ruins the church with your attitude, your unbelief, your self-importance or do you want to be a beautiful flower, that will brighten someone’s day by loving them where they are, just like Jesus does?
Yours in His Service
Brother Paul