Deep Roots

I have a morning routine and part of that routine is watering outside plants and flowers. We have some large pots with flowers that my wife has planted. One particular large pot has a plant that has been loaded with beautiful yellow blossoms and it continually has stayed vibrant and thriving; full of blossoms.
A few mornings ago I went out to water it, and most all of those beautiful buds and flowers had shriveled and were turning brown. Right in the middle of that plant that looked so beautiful and healthy-now one single weed was growing up through the middle & protruded up above all that was once beautiful and luscious. Obviously though I didn’t know it- that one single deep rooted weed had been growing up for sometime and now it was front and center; exposed. All the beauty had died off, and now this weed stood up; rooted in that same pot. I reached down; grabbed it and plucked it up. It had a long, nasty root that sank down deeply into that soil.
As I stood there, looking at that weed, Holy Spirit, spoke and said “that is what is growing in the heart and lives of many professing Christians. There is a root; a deep, dark root of bitterness, of pride, arrogance, lust, anger, cheating, lying, or deception. On the surface, they look to be blooming and thriving, but in the heart is an ugly root that needs to be plucked up. God says, “that we must deal with it and pluck it up or He will allow it to be exposed.”” God says “I will pull back the cover and expose it if it is not dealt with quickly.” That nasty ugly seed of sin when exposed will kill off all the beauty, if it is not dealt with quickly.