WHAT IS, WILL BE #2

When seeds do not develop as intended, there are parables to tell us why this is so.

The Parable of the Sower in Luke 8 tells of four kinds of soil. Three of them are not good soil for seeds to grow well. But even so…what does grow will be what it is. And, the one ‘good soil’ will grow seeds to maturity.
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree Luke 13 is a tree that is not producing fruit and the landowner wants it cut down. The vineyard keeper pleads for one more year with special care and more fertilizer to make it produce. Grace is given for ‘one more year’ to show the Lord’s mercy. It had been three years without fruit and that is the same amount of time John the Baptist and Jesus had been asking the Jews to repent and they would not for the most part.

The Parable of the Wheat and Tares in Matthew 13 is a striking contrast of perverting good and normal seeds and making them appear as normal when they are weeds and a lie. What is weed seed will produce weeds. What is wheat will produce wheat. The point of the parable is that deception of seeds does not make them what they are not intended to be.

What is…will be. Seeds are ‘after their kind’ every time in every species that is normal to nature, scripture and human understanding. What isn’t this way is not the Kingdom way but another way, the way of the enemy.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew.” Jesus