On the golf course near where I work, there’s the cutest little oak sapling.
It’s staked off, to protect from the wind, and encircled with chicken wire, to deter animal damage. But it will be several years before this little guy is a golfing hazard, as oak trees grow slowly.
Speaking of years gone by, look at this:
Somebody put stakes around this baby oak and never took them out. It’s now a mature tree that no longer needs support. At this point, I don’t think they’ll be easy to pull out!
My immediate thought was, “What a lazy landscaper.” On the other hand, the “mis-staked” tree provides a powerful life lesson.
Are there things in my life that once served a purpose but don’t anymore? I outgrew them, but didn’t remove them.
Why are they still around?
If you get into the habit of doing something physically, you will do it every time you are tested until you break the habit through sheer determination. And the same is true spiritually.
Oswald Chambers
Kind reader, is {Fill in appropriate subject here} still a part of your life, one that no longer serves a holy purpose? I’m asking myself the same question.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV)
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️ prayers and love.
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