Weeds in my Garden | Week Six
I tell you that I’m whole, but I’m still healing.
I tell you that I’m happy, but I’m grieving.
Thought I was a fighter, I’m still in the fire.
But if I’m being honest, I’m not being honest.
I’ll give you roses just hopin’ you don’t see the weeds in my garden.
(“Honest” by Kyndal Inskeep)
It’s OK to not be OK and Jesus wants to make us whole.
4 Roots to our Weeds:
Situational
Biological
Clinical
Spiritual
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed. John 5:1-3
One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?” John 5:5-6
“Sir,” the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.” John 5:7
“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk. John 5:8-9
I can Repeat it
I can Release it
God will sometimes Remove it
God will always Redeem it
…a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself. Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.”
Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4