PIGWEED BREATH

Jesus said that the kingdom of God could be likened to a seed. One of the core truths to be learned from a seed is all seeds have a genealogy. You can trace an apple and a thorn tree back to the original tree from which it came. I wrote the following sometime back to illustrate this point:

"My garden has a propensity to grow a lowlife called Pigweed. It is quiet selfish, plots to overthrow the good seed, and will leave you retreating in pain were you to grab it with your bare hand because of its thistles. It has a very filthy mouth, for at its root is a curse.

What you need to understand is this: the Pigweed that flourishes in my garden did not originate there. Its infamous lineage can be traced back to the Garden of Eden to the original “father” pigweed. It was there that it obtained its legal right to be established as a perennial enemy because of the disobedience of Adam, “Cursed is the ground for thy sake…” (Genesis 3:17).

What is true of Pigweed is true of all other weeds that grow effortlessly in gardens everywhere. Coffee weeds, sandspurs, wild onions and the like have multiplied from generation to generation, claiming the ground as their own. As a succession of rulers, as soon as one dies, the crown is passed to the next in line to enforce the curse and reign in place of blessing.

All this is true because the nature of a seed—both good and evil, is to multiply. In other words, any weed seed that you hold in your hand did not originate in your hand; it was multiplied from the original “father.”

This “weed-ology” parallels a more somber truth: The “seeds” of sin that we sow so effortlessly have an author. Words of hate, anger, and deception can be traced all the way back to the mouth of the Devil when he deceived Eve and tempted Adam to disobey. Because of Adam’s sin, the "ground" of mans heart was cursed, and out of the abundance or the heart, the mouth speaks—with putrid “Pigweed” breath.

Sad to say, we are so accustomed to “weeds” in our garden, we consider it normal to “flood” our homes with a steady stream of tyranny. We are professional employers of the wisdom that says that in order to get our way; we must raise our voice in escalating anger, speak words filled with hate and cursing, and manipulate circumstances. This wisdom is of the devil: “But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilsh” (James 3:14-15).

There is nothing innocent about our ungodly anger and the words we use to express it. Words like, “You make me sick; You are just like your mother; You’ll never change,” spring from a counterfeit wisdom that we use to manipulate for selfish purposes. Follow this "river" upstream and you will find that it proceeds from an angry Devil. He is a liar from the beginning to the end: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood..." (Revelation 12:5)."

As my Uncle Ronny has said, "We don't want to be like a hog eating acorns and never look up to see where they are coming from." Pig Weed breath proceeds from a pig.

Get rid of it!