Growing Weeds or Sowing Seeds

Mark 4:1-25
  
Are your seeds still in the barn or have you taken them out for planting?

All who proclaim Christ as their personal Savior are to plant the good seed every day. What type of Farmer are you? We all hold a Farmer position. Some may hold more than one. Whatever the case, find out your position and go to work.
  
 The TILLER:
 Isaiah 28:24, Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 

• What do tillers do? Break the ground, stir up the soil, prepare the ground for planting or do they bring confusion?
• Use your tools wisely. It could be a verbal testimony, a song, how people see your life, your witness.
• Use your tools carefully so as not to destroy the plants.
• What may work on one may not work on another and some may respond quicker.

  
 
The SOWER:
Luke 8:11, Now the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God. 

• Do you plant the seeds and lay the foundation?
• Some of the seeds must be laid in mass; the objective is to get as much seed out as possible.
• Not all of the seeds may grow, do not fret if it doesn't grow.
• The Lord instructed us to sow, growth depends on the condition of the heart.

  
 
The WATERER:
 John 4:14, But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 

• Do you nurture, feed, and take care of what or where the seed is planted?
• Too much water and the seeds drown, not enough and they dry up.
• Don't deprive the soil of what it needs, food and water.
• If the soil is receptive to what you've planted and you see it growing, tend to it.
• It could be an older Christian tending to a younger one.

 
 
The REAPER:
Matthew 9:37-38, Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest is truly plenteous but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest. 

• Do we gather the harvest or cut it down before it's had time to grow?
• Have we waited too long, and it has dried up and died?
• Many are searching for the Word, looking for answers to their life.
• Show them Jesus, bring them to Him.
• Don't act hastily and overpower it, give it time to grow but don't wait too long and let it die.

 
Who is the Sower? We are.
What is the seed? The Word of God.
What is the soil? The world.
 
There are plenty of people waiting to hear the Word. We should not make excuses, look around, and we’ll find someone eager to listen to the Word of God. God will use us in one way or another or maybe in all aspects of farming. We should be prepared to work. We could be the ones to lead someone to Christ.
Do your part, till the soil, plant the seed, water it (nurture), then help gather them in. Don't worry if the crop fails, go plant a garden somewhere else. Never give up, Christ didn't give up on you.
 
 
Church Hymnal, page 385, Softly and Tenderly
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me;
See on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me.
Come home, come home, Ye who are weary come home.
Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home.