Victory! I pulled out the moss from around my house and added top soil. I can’t see any moss right now! I win! Until next week when that green stuff has the last laugh on me again. I do not have any dirt without moss in it. I am having to learn how to live with moss.
My side yard is moss, not grass. At least it is green. My mower is mowing moss. Is that ridiculous or what?
I ripped the moss off the face of the earth (it has a very tight grip on its piece of MY REAL ESTATE)! I moved it in the wheelbarrow to the edge of the ravine to its new home and tossed it overboard.
Still…I am insulted. When it landed, it looked like it belonged there! Couldn’t it have the grace to look out of place? Or displaced? Or something?
Hmmm…I wonder if that is how sin looks in our lives? On the surface, it is pleasant to behold. It’s texture is soft and it’s color is restful to the eye. Yet, it takes over everywhere and you can never really get rid of it. It’s underneath the nice veneer of fresh dirt and its tentacles move right into that clean dirt (is that an oxymoron?) and next year, I will be pulling off the top layer of moss all over again. Sin returns. Or maybe it never really left?
My hostas and Bleeding Heart look so comfortable as they take great breaths of fresh air and spread out their spring foliage. Those are the good works done in the sight of the Lord. They are well meaning. When they are full bloom, their beauty exclaims the magnificence of their Creator.
But, lo and behold, underneath lurks the moss. For another fight another time. As long as this earth exists.
But, as believers in Jesus, we know that this earth will be replaced with a new earth. Maybe a time is coming when moss won’t grow in our gardens? Sin has been defeated at the Cross and because of the Resurrection of our Lord, we are free.
Halleluia!
“There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” Romans 8:1,2.
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