Sometimes seeing a bad ending might help us reflect on how it began. Little seeds grow big trees; some good, while others are bad. Both have one thing in common; each has multiplied the seed they originally received life from to many seeds.
The winds come and carry these seeds to places you
would have never imagined! Some live, some do not.
Can we see the importance of not allowing any of the bad seeds in our hearts, to grow? Can we see how many others will be affected by what starts off as one small hidden sin or offence that is allowed to grow into the issue it eventually becomes because we will not deal with it? Remember the old saying "nip it in the bud". There are things that we should prune even before a seed has a chance to form. A little neglect today will create a major headache tomorrow.
"Receive every inward and outward trouble, every disappointment, pain, and uneasiness, temptation, darkness, and desolation, with both thy hands, as a true opportunity and blessed occasion of dying to self, and entering into a fuller fellowship with thy self-denying, suffering Saviour. Look at no inward or outward trouble in any other view; reject every other thought about it; and then every kind of trial and distress will become the blessed day of thy prosperity. That state is best, which exerciseth the highest faith in, and fullest resignation to God." ~William Law
"The particular annoyance which befell you this morning, the vexatious words which met your ear and grieved your spirit; the diappointment which was His appointment for to day; the slight but hindering ailment; the presence of some one who is 'a grief of mind' to you, --whatever this day seemth not joyous, but grievous, is 'the good pleasure of His goodness' with a corresponding afterward of 'peaceable fruit,' the very seed from which, if you only do not choke it, this shall spring and ripen." ~F.R. Havergal
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