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 and 2-05-2023
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