Satan and Weeds

[543 words] There are weeds dying at my house (in fact, many are already dead). I know because I had a big part in killing them. As I was in the process of spraying them with a certain herbicide, an interesting analogy came to mind–I was actually playing Satan. Notice these salient points: Someone once noted that a weed is a simply plant that is out of place. That leads me into my first point–I only picked the plants that were out of place. The ones that were where they were supposed to be, I left alone. Satan is the same way. He notices those who have veered off the “strait and narrow” and picks on them (sometimes he even lures them off of the path that leads to righteousness – read Jas. 1:14 and 1 Pet. 5:8). Another thing to mention concerning the weeds and myself is that I…