ROOT OUT WHILE YOUNG!

A teacher took his students for a picnic to a nearby botanical garden. As they were walking through, the teacher thought of a game and asked the smallest of the students, “Can you pull this tiny plant?” The boy easily pulled it out.  Then the teacher showed a plant which had deeper root and asked the same question. But however much the boy tried, he couldn’t. Then he summoned a bigger boy to pull that one out and he could do it with ease. The game continued with a deeper rooted plants and no one in the group could.  The teacher pulled that one and then showing the mother plant he said, “I could pull this one, but not even a strongest man can pull out this mother plant!” 

“So it is with bad habits,” said the teacher. “When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted.”

The teacher who was a believer in God’s power further said, “Though the strongest man cannot pull out this mother plant, an elephant can. So there is hope for even a person who has deep rooted sinful nature. Seek His/Her help if you cannot do it by yourself.”

Don’t wait for bad habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it, else they will get control of you. If you are in a stage where you cannot do it by yourself, seek God’s assistance!