Weed that is allowed to go to seed, will sprout a whole new batch of weeds next season. So, on-going, determined persistence and searching-out each weed is required. From corner to corner and hidden away in each nook we must search for any weeds. Their seeds cannot be allowed to sprout and perpetuate. If they are ignored they will surely multiply. They must be torn up and thrown away or burned in the fire.
 
There are so many analogies here for applcation in our daily lives. We cannot allow even the taint of sin, fear or disbelief to remain. We must search out every dark corner and rid ourselves of anything that the enemy can use. The weeds are the lies and deceptions of the enemy that he wants us to believe that are actually coming from satan, disguised as if they are coming from our own minds. We must reject those ‘thoughts’ that do not line up with what God says about us in His Holy Word.
 
When we obsess in fear that something awful may happen, we are not trusting God, for His sovereign provision and His sure Promises towards us. Fear or anxiety about the future is one of the main ingredients of depression.  The mistrust of God’s promised and faithful provision to His children, may allow an open door for the enemy of our souls, to attack and then possibly the very thing we fear, to take place. And then the enemy may gain a foothold, where he is neither wanted, nor belongs.
 
Job said “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.” (Job 3:25)
 
We have to flood our minds instead with Gods positive healing and restorative Words and sure Promises that are living and active, reaching to the very deepest part of our bodies. Even as deep, as between bone and marrow. Surely the sharp two-edged Sword of His Word can reach deep into our brains and take captive our every erring thought and save us from deception. We must believe Jesus and trust Him for His sure Promises recorded for us in His Word.
 
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Cor 10:3)  This is imperative – by analyzing this Scripture we see that our thoughts may have strayed away from our control. They may have become disobedient to Christ. We may have become ensnared by arguments and pretensions that have set themselves up against the knowledge of God.