Tuesday, January 26, 2021

GOD IS THE MASTER FARMER

 









GOD IS THE MASTER FARMER


As servants of God-

As servants of Christ-

As their apostles and disciples

In the 20th and 21st century


It falls upon us

To SPREAD the word of God


We don't know

Who will be receiving that word

If anybody

And who will not


God is the MASTER FARMER


“A sower went out to sow” Mark 4:3


Today's reading Mark 4:1-20

Is about the parable

Of the sower


A reading that almost ALL 20th and

21st Christians know


The truth is

That when a farmer farms

NOT all of his efforts

PRODUCE good crops


And the truth is too

WHEN we spread the word of God

Not all of our efforts


Produce fruit-in other words-

REACH people who are receptive

To the word of God


“The fruit of the righteous

Is a tree of life


And the one who is wise

SAVES LIVES” Proverbs 11:30


“Likewise

Every good fruit

Bears good fruit


But a bad fruit

Bears bad fruit


A good tree

Cannot bear bad fruit


And a bad tree

Cannot bear good fruit


EVERY tree

That does not bear good fruit

Is cut down

And thrown into the fire


Thus by their fruit

You will RECOGNIZE THEM” Matthew 7:17-18


God is the master farmer

It is ONLY GOD

Who can make the WORD OF GOD

Grow inside someone


It is God who determines

Who the good fruit are


When we put

The word of God out

Some falls on rich soil

And grows


Some fall on the path

And are rejected


Some words

Fall on rocky ground

And are uprooted by the people

With selfish values


And other words

Fall among the thorns

That injustice chokes off


But the words

That fall on good ground

LASTS FOREVER in those individuals

And in the world


“Heaven and earth will pass away

But my words

Will never pass away” Luke 21:33


God's words-Jesus' words-

LIVE IN ME


God-the DIVINE-the MASTER FARMER-LIVES ON in me


Robert P. Wallman

1-26-16


INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Bridget Haase, O.S.U.




Ps 1-26-27-2021


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