There is a large office building I pass by every morning on my walks, and the grass around it is in desperate need of a mow. The grass has gotten so high that much of it is at least knee-high and has gone to seed. This morning on my walk, I noticed a woman from the neighborhood trying to use a weed whacker on the tall grass on one side of the building. But I could tell she was not getting too far. The grass was too long, and the area to cover was far too large to make a dent. I didn’t see that woman with the weed whacker anymore upon my return walk home.
The plight of that woman and the tall grass gnaws at me because I know what she is feeling. She thought she could fix the problem, but the problem is simply too big for one person to tackle. How many things in life are like that? And how many things are like that in a spiritual sense, when we as Christians see sin running rampant around us? We want to do something. We want cut down and get rid of what we can. But it is just not possible for us. That is why Jesus came. The cross serves as a giant sin remover that gets rid of all that is wrong with the world, down to the very roots. We live in a sinful world. We see signs of that every day. But we are not Jesus. Only he can mow down what is messed up on this earth, spiritually speaking, and take us to the perfect paradise of heaven, through his forgiveness and grace.
