Wanting to do things for God but getting attacked by maggots and aphids (religious people).

Likeness of false hypocrites,
We could Sodom’s apples call them,
Who, with rot though they be filled
On the outside brightly glisten.
Hypocrites, though outward fair,
Cannot stand before God’s throne.
:- J.S Bach

Religious people are as Sodom’s rotten apples full of maggots and filth. They can not serve the living God but can only serve their own self righteousness.

Religion is a canker that eats at the tree, a blight that destroys the fruit. Religion serves itself. Religion does not like florescence or fruition because their fruit is so rotten even wasps want to avoid it. Religious people cause premature fruit drop. They are like aphids sucking at the sap of Christians. Religion is often legalistic and we should not yield our fruit to it (Galatians 2:4-5)

I’ve suddenly realised that religious people have been sucking at my xylem and phloem.

It is also true that as aphids are vectors of viruses religous people are vectors of false doctrine.