Let's pull Weeds!!

Let's pull weeds everybody! It's so fun!
Yeah I know.. you're thinking: this guy is crazy.

No one I have ever met likes pulling weeds and few people even want to. When we get slack, they show up in the front yard. Some say it's impossible to keep them from coming. Others say it should just be ignored. Now I want to propose something to you.

Weeds are always showing up in life. Pulling weeds can be a draining process, taking lots of time and effort.  As we weed, sometimes we try to pull it all the way but miss a part of the root. This can result in the weed coming back later. Smaller weeds when ignored can grow to be bigger weeds, making them much harder to remove. Not even mentioning allergies, back pain, and itchiness, weeding is tough work. Is it really worth it in the end?

Let us compare weeds to sin.

We all sin. Sin makes us unclean, and unhappy. For "wickedness never was happiness" as it states in Alma 41:10. These sins are sometimes large and sometimes small. When we want to get rid of sin, we repent. This process can seem very painful and drawn out, but through Christ's power and mercy we can be forgiven of our sins. He will make our joy as exceeding as was our pain.

Come unto Christ, and He will help you be clean and free from sin once again. He will heal all the wrongs that were done by sin and make you whole.

The Lord has said:

D&C 58: 42 Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven,

and I, the Lord, remember them no more.

43 By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold,

he will confess them and forsake them.

 

We confess to God our sins and we ask for his help to change ourselves. This change can be difficult when WE try to do everything. Christ is the one who can change us to make us not even want to sin.

Ezekiel 36: 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

 We can have that clean fresh start by turning to God and asking for the power of Christ's atonement to heal us and change us. Christ can be the miraculous power that gets rid of all your weeds in your life. Now do you like weeding? I sure do.

I testify that we can repent and be forgiven of all the sins we have committed. We Can and Will be changed by Christ's infinite love and mercy and He will forgive you.
Here is a song that my mom wrote about forgiveness. It is very beautiful and I recommend you listen to it. Click on the play button on the bottom of your screen after getting to the site.
http://www.reverbnation.com/michelebaer#!/artist/artist_songs/797382