Matthew records one of the Parables the Lord was teaching the people, he says “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” Ugh...the tares are weeds! The Lord doesn’t like weeds either, good news is, that means we are just trying to be like Jesus.

Peter cautioned us: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8).

I don’t just want to spot where the adversary shows up in our lives and then jump from one weed to the next trying to pull the same things out every 2 weeks, sure it’s a good first step, but I want to eliminate the weeds or triggers and stop the torture from happening in the first place because I want to be able to do other things in life.