Weed Seed

Life affords limited resources. Regardless of how many times the coach has told us, we need to give 110% we only have 100% available. We have 100% energy, time, money, etc. If we use 50% of our emotional capital on worry, we only have 50% left for focusing on something constructive. Since we have a time and date where we will leave this world, every second that passes brings us closer to that moment and there is nothing we can do to change that date.

The Bible often uses farming illustrations to help us understand growth, development and the end of harvesting. God, the giver of life and all good things, gives us the soil of life. 

Weeds and desirable plants both thrive in good soil. In fact, at times, all the young plants look similar. The real difference takes place as the plants distinguish themselves. 

Weeds are dangerous in that they can stunt or destroy the desired plant and yield. If they are recognized too late or ignored when the opportunity was available to destroy them, they limit potential and cause much more labor during the harvest.

In farming or gardening, this is well understood, but in life, we seem to ignore these principles. The comfort God allows us to enjoy is like the fertile soil in that both good and undesirable plants can thrive in its environment. For example, the money we have can be invested into the meaningful or the meaningless and both can grow. Our healthy bodies can be a place that allows both the meaningful and meaningless to co-exist thereby limiting any real good effects the desirable might produce. 

God always and only provides us with good seed and soil. It is possible to get bad seed, but not from God. It is possible to have good seed placed into soil that has been “corrupted” thereby exhausting any growth potential or limiting the eventual harvest. The choice of where we get the seed and what kind of soil we put it in obviously matters. (Matthew 13)

Those who pay attention to and prepare the soil should also be careful as to where they get the seed. Those who get good seed need to make sure it is placed in prepared soil. Regardless, one needs to be on the lookout for “weed seed” or be willing to pay the consequences. 

Life has choices that matter and therefore have consequences. It is not always easy to see through the lens of self what is best, and for many, who have ignored the ideas of a limited resource, there will be regrets on the day we face our King. 

Perhaps one of the most devious tactics of the Evil One is the planting of weed seed in the adequately prepared soil of our lives. As troublesome as it may be, it would be wise to identify and destroy those weeds as soon as they are identified. 

Successful farmers work tirelessly to insure a successful crop. Those who are successful in life apply the same principles.