Good doesn't need Fixing!

The perpetual optimist is not a help in trouble. When the garden is full of weeds they will tell us to ignore the weeds and focus on the flowers.

The problem with only focusing on the flowers is that without taking action to rid the garden of the weeds we are allowing the weeds to choke out the flowers and at the end of it there are no flowers left and only weeds.

When the weeds are allowed to overtake the garden they starve the flowers of the necessary nutrients and sunlight to survive.

Gardens can teach us valuable lessons about life and relationships.

Relationships are like this too, the weeds are those who do not love Christ and attempt to deter us from making Him first in our lives.

The sunlight is Christ and the nutrients are the Holy Spirit. These are just my thoughts because I am convinced God gave us many examples in nature of His character and our life experiences.

The world is full of weeds who need to learn how to become flowers through salvation in Jesus Christ. We can share the gospel to those who are lost but we cannot make them flowers. They must choose for themselves.

Ephesians 1:13-14

13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."

Once we were saved we no longer had anything in common with the world, our heart was taken over by the Holy Spirit. We no longer enjoy the people who love the world.

John 14:16-18 "…16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."

It sounds good at first hearing that being positive all the time uplifts people, but the problem with it is that nothing every gets fixed,d nothing is ever resolved and no one grows emotionally or spiritually. Everyone just walks around smiling thoughts of superficial banter and fake happiness without any depth whatever.

It is not the good that needs attention, it is the bad that needs fixing. When we ignore the bad in favor of superficial happiness we are useless to help anyone and even ourselves to become better and more useful for the Kingdom.