What Would Love
Do?
Part 1
I asked my
neighbor if she minded me telling this story about their garden. I wasn't trying to make anything happen in
order to come up with some good story, as
a matter fact I have never tried to make something happen in order to come up with a good
example. I wanted her to know my motives
were not selfish at all, but my motives were genuine.
I noticed her husband poisoning the grass in
their yard, but at that time I didn't know it was because he was planning on
putting in a raised garden. Then I noticed
them planting the garden. It was then
that I realized he'd be planting food there. I became concerned whether or not
it would be safe to eat. I thought in my
heart should I tell them what I think?
Then I decided I was just being a worry wart and that I should mind my
own business. They could of been using
something, I was unaware of, to kill the grass that was safe and usable in a vegetable
garden.
I guess a few weeks went by and the plants
were growing. Once again I was concerned
the food might make them sick or kill them even. I decided to look for information whether or
not using "Round Up" on the
ground, when building a raise garden bed, was safe. According to the information I read, using poison like "Round Up" is not a safe
thing to use when planting food. I
struggled with the idea of saying anything.
I didn't want to cause any problems with my neighbors.
Then I had to ask myself, "What would
love do?" "Would love just
keep silent, if it meant something could
hurt our neighbors? The bible says, "Perfect
love casteth out all fear." I
decided the right thing to do was to share my concerns with my neighbor, because
love would warn them.
When the opportunity
came I asked my neighbor if I could ask her a question? I made it clear that I wasn't trying to be a
nosey neighbor, but the reason I was asking the question is because I care
about them. I was concerned for their
health and well being. I then proceeded
to ask what kind of poison they used on the grass.
She told me they used Round Up. I
told her what I believed to be true, that the food might not be safe to eat.
I didn't have to tell them, but how could I
live with myself knowing something could hurt them and not say anything. To find out later that one of them or both of
them were to become sick or die. I would
grieve miserably. The same way spiritually,
I could just stand by, never tell them that there is danger for the person who
dies without Jesus. That there is a
heaven and a hell and we will go one of two places when we die. There's no turning back then.
Though these words might not be exactly the words that I used, this was pretty much the gist of what I said... I asked if she would at least go online and check things out for herself and she said that she would.
Colossians
1:28
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching
every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Susan Nikitenko
Devotional Part
1
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