Weeds

Weeds. I think I do a better job at growing weeds in my yard than I do growing grass. I can grow grass like a champion in my gravel driveway, but not in the yard. I spray for weeds constantly and my wife pulls weeds like it’s going out of style. Why is it so easy for weeds to grow and so hard for grass to grow?  Is it the soil?  Is it too rocky or is there too much clay?  I don’t know the answer but it does remind me of one of the parables of Christ.

“And he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.’” - Matthew 13:3-9.

When we share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we do not know much about the ground we are planting the seed in. Some of those we share with may not be interested at all because maybe things are going too well in their lives and they don’t feel they need a Savior. Some may be so distracted by the things of the world that they listen but soon go back to the pleasures of the world.

But sometimes, that soil has been worked by someone else who has the shared the Gospel before us and it softened their hearts. And when you share the Good News with them, the time is right for that seed to take root. We never know the soil that has been prepared before we arrive. Our job is to continue to plant seeds and sometimes it’s our job to just till the soil. Maybe our job is to just pull and kill the weeds that may choke out future seeds.

Whatever it is the Lord would have us to do, we are to continue to leave seeds along our journey called life. Sometimes we till, sometimes we weed and sometimes we plant. Either way, keep doing what Christ commanded us to do, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." - Matthew 28:19-20.

Have a great day and God bless.