What we as Christians have a tendency to label as sin is often just the visible growth of the weeds in the soil of our lives, but we often pay little or no attention to the roots that exist at a deeper level. So we run our lifestyle lawnmowers over their growth more and more regularly, only to have it grow back faster and stronger because they haven’t been pulled by the root that this darkness sprouts from. The temptation is to treat sin as the sickness when it’s really just the symptom.
