As promised....the deflating pumpkin.....

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that when Tim and I went to the pumpkin patch with the kids, we found the "deflated" pumpkins more interesting than the plump, choice pumpkins!

And here they are....just a few that caught our eyes...Tim really enjoyed taking pics of them. When the slugs come and eat a hole through the bottom of the pumpkin, they start feeding on the innards of the squash and then the veggie deflates....it gets soft and collapses.

It's kinda like sin in our lives.....it eats small holes in our soul, appearing docile and hardly threatening. But if we don't get rid of the parasite, it starts feeding off of us, it begins to devour our souls leaving it empty and without foundation. This leads to a soul crippling.... and collapsing. And then, we rot. The sin takes us. BUT, when the pumpkin farmer finds the small slug gnawing away at the skin of the pumpkin, he picks up that slimy slug and squashes the HELL out of it (I used hell for a reason). God's doing that in us when we yield to His care....He SQUASHES hell in us and continues to provide for us what we need to grow.

This happens to me a lot. Sin's slow intrusion makes it comfortable for a while...ya hardly notice it's there, but when it threatens our innards and tries to steal our soul, we gotta call on the Master Farmer and yield to His loving pesticide....the work of the Holy Spirit. Got slugs? Call the Farmer. Be blessed and keep those comments coming!