The Garden

It's time to plant that garden! Are all of your seeds and plants in the ground? Or are you procrastinating like we are?

Jesus spoke a lot about planting seeds and harvesting crops. But He was really talking about the Gospel and you and me.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away. When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.

So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’ ” - Matthew 13:24-30

Gardening is a picture of the Kingdom of God. God planted all the seeds. But then Satan came along and planted weeds in amongst the good plants.

Jesus, the Master Gardener, decided not to have His angels remove the weeds (the bad ones), but instead He had them grow together with the good - not wanting to damage the good when the bad were uprooted.

The only problem with having weeds amongst the desired crop is that the weeds drain half the nutrients out of the soil. That makes it harder for the good crops to grow. And such it is with you and me.

In the end though, at the harvest, we get to go into "the barn" while the weeds get to be burned in the fire. AKA hell.

There is a time for planting and a time for harvesting (according to King Solomon). Don't wait until the harvest to plant YOUR garden. You will be greatly disappointed. 

Keep your eyes open for the Master Gardener. He waters us and looks after us. And it's not long before the harvest!