A few days ago, I got to live out the parable of the sower.
While mom and dad were carting off the last load of rocks, I started throwing the seed out. As I was walking and throwing out the seed... I started noticing where the seed was landing. I had practically no control where the seed went. There were places where it ended up laying really thick... and other places there were only a few seeds.
Some did indeed land on the rocks... or in the water... And the birds did indeed come to eat some of it... still are pecking around there every once in a while... There was even a flash flood... it washed a ton of mud and stuff to the house... who knows how much of the seed got washed away...
But you know... the grass is growing! At least some of it found ground, started roots... and the field is getting greener every day...
Even when we think that the seeds we're sowing... have been washed away... or swallowed up... God knows exactly where each seed has landed... and what kind of ground it's in... and how long it's going to take that seed to germinate.
We've been doing some landscaping in the field above the house. We've moved around 9 tons of little rocks... and a TON of massively huge rocks out of the field. So then we started planting grass seed.
While mom and dad were carting off the last load of rocks, I started throwing the seed out. As I was walking and throwing out the seed... I started noticing where the seed was landing. I had practically no control where the seed went. There were places where it ended up laying really thick... and other places there were only a few seeds.
Some did indeed land on the rocks... or in the water... And the birds did indeed come to eat some of it... still are pecking around there every once in a while... There was even a flash flood... it washed a ton of mud and stuff to the house... who knows how much of the seed got washed away...
But you know... the grass is growing! At least some of it found ground, started roots... and the field is getting greener every day...
Even when we think that the seeds we're sowing... have been washed away... or swallowed up... God knows exactly where each seed has landed... and what kind of ground it's in... and how long it's going to take that seed to germinate.
So my thought has been... don't get discouraged... God can aim our throws... and He knows what it takes to bring them to fruition... We might not see it when we think we should... maybe we'll never see it... but eventually... those seeds will grow...
So keep planting! Throw out as many as possible! Never know what God can do with it... : )
