Farming

So I have a Facebook and have come across this game called Farmville. Oh it is the greatest game I think I have ever seen. You have a farm, you plant crops, harvest crops, you get animals and have to milk the cows, shear the sheep, collect the eggs. You can buy houses, barns, tractors. Just a little bit of everything. It is so much fun to me! It is relaxing and fun to talk about. I enjoy racing against my fellow farm neighbors to increase in level and then you get to visit someone's farm and weed their crops, shew the raccoons. I know by now you are probably scratching your head thinking, "What is this woman talking about?!?!".

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But, that leads me to my point. So many times in life we find ourselves planting seeds of God's word and then other times we find ourselves harvesting the crop from someone else's seed. Life is like living on Farmville. You have ups and downs, crops grow and then some die. You learn more and more with each day.

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But, as I sit here today I find that my words are empty but His seem to always be right on key. Check this out...

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"'Study this story of the farmer planting seed. When anyone hears news of the kingdom and doesn't take it in, it just remains on the surface, and so the Evil One comes along and plucks it right out of that person's heart. This is the seed the farmer scatters on the road. The seed cast in the gravel—this is the person who hears and instantly responds with enthusiasm. But there is no soil of character, and so when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it. The seed cast in the weeds is the person who hears the kingdom news, but weeds of worry and illusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what was heard, and nothing comes of it. The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.'

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He told another story. 'God's kingdom is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. That night, while his hired men were asleep, his enemy sowed thistles all through the wheat and slipped away before dawn. When the first green shoots appeared and the grain began to form, the thistles showed up, too. The farmhands came to the farmer and said, 'Master, that was clean seed you planted, wasn't it? Where did these thistles come from?' He answered, 'Some enemy did this.' The farmhands asked, 'Should we weed out the thistles?' He said, 'No, if you weed the thistles, you'll pull up the wheat, too. Let them grow together until harvest time. Then I'll instruct the harvesters to pull up the thistles and tie them in bundles for the fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the barn.'

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Another story. 'God's kingdom is like a pine nut that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge pine tree, and eagles build nests in it.'" Matthew 13:18-32 (MSG)

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So, what's your agenda for the day? Feel like planting some seeds or harvesting some crops?