Many of you grew up on a farm or worked on a farm when you were younger. It is a self-sustaining livelihood. It is hard demanding work and admirable. Not one you can easily fit into your back pocket. Many of you have a garden where you grow tomatoes, corn, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, melons and beans. Have you ever checked your climbing beans up close? I mean really taken a look? Did you notice they are left-handed! Huh? That’s right! They grow up the pole from left to right. Not convinced, go see for yourself. Nature has an instinct all its own. Men don’t understand it, but God made it that way. No professor, no horticulturalists, no farmer can explain it, no wise man can deny it, and any honest man will admit only God could do it.
Nature can teach us a thing or two if we look closely. Did you realize oranges, grapefruit, and lemons all have an even number of sections or segments? Ever notice that watermelons that show stripes always show an even number? The cob of corn has an even number of rows. Each stalk of wheat bears an even number of rows. Each stalk of wheat bears an even number of grains. This is true of rye, oats, and barley. Is there a connection when the Lord said that the harvest gathered would be “thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundred”??? The Master Harvester knew from the start WHO, what, when, where, why and how to harvest.
“Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God and there is none like me."
God is unique in his knowledge and in his control of the earth, people and all else—including the future. Go ahead and plant your crops, your plants, your seeds but don’t forget what Jesus said in the parable of the weeds in Matthew.
“The one who sowed the good seed stands for the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the Kingdom.” Matthew 13:37
Want more? Read all about it in Matthew 13:24-43. You will grow from your studies.
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