MAKE ME LIKE GARLIC

I have a garlic bed that I want to convert over to something

else.  That is, a bed of something else.

You gardeners can laugh at me all you want.  I cannot hear

you from here.  But my futile efforts go something like this.

I first took the rototiller and went through the bed tilling it

up real fine and throwing out all the garlic bulbs I found.

Thinking I was ready to plant the next crop something delayed

me a few weeks.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.  

In that couple of weeks a whole mess of garlic started

growing again.  So, I hand dug them up, and,threw them 

in a bucket.  I did not want to let them grow somewhere 

else resulting in my simply dumping them on an old 

out side work bench about October the sixth or a few days

 before. That is the image above.

In the mean time I have done nothing, nothing, nothing,

to help the unwanted garlic.  They were left there on the 

bench to die.  In the image below you can see they have

gathered some fall leaves, but look, they are growing 

there on that wooden bench on November the ninth.

Back to the bed.

I thought I had it taken care of this time.  WRONG.

Small garlic plants began coming up about the size of

grass.  I tried raking them all out, or so I thought.  It

looked good - for a few days.  Then more small plants.

You guessed it.

I have not planted anything else in there yet.

What is my point?

God put life in a garlic plant that can be real hard to

kill out.  Because I have a relationship with Jesus Christ

I have the life of God in me also.  And I want that life to

be as tenacious in me as garlic's life is in it.

But garlic stinks.

If you smell it on someone's breath, yep.

But if you smell garlic bread being made,

you get hungry.  And, garlic is good for you too.

Regarding a Christian.  By that I mean a real 

Christian, somebody who has whole heartedly

turned to God and taken Jesus Christ into their 

life to be their Lord and master.  The Apostle 

Paul has this to say; 

"For we are a fragrance of Christ to God

among those who are being saved and among

those who are perishing; to the one an aroma

from death to death, to the other an aroma

from life to life."  

(2 Corinthians 2:15,16 NASB) 

May God help me make my life a pleasing fragrance

or aroma to God even if it "stinks" to the world.