Sunday, March 29, 2020

The Parable of the Seed




Long ago, a sower of seeds received word that a group of propagators wanted to form a place of agricultural reverence.   Successful with great harvests, he lived the philosophy “Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”  He thought about the invitation and decided he would join the promulgating society of the agricultural gathering.

When he arrived at the agricultural facility, the simplicity of it impressed him.  It was a small building.  Once there, he learned that other sowers had the same philosophy as he did.  They were sowing seeds on every available piece of property they could find.  He decided this was a good thing and started attending their bi-monthly meetings.  A successful collector of seeds, called a spermologist, would teach a class on seeds at these gatherings.

After the harvest time, some of the sowers decided that they would share testimonies about their harvest and collection of seeds.  The core group of sowers invited some potential sowers to these meetings.  They realized that it would be beneficial to start some classes about seeds.  They decided to target the potential sowers and those that were interested in carpology, which is the study of seeds.

As a surprise, a sower sung a song that he wrote about seeds.  He had some of his farm hands deliver his wife’s piano, which she played as the farmer sang.  It was so wonderful that the core group collected seed songs from other agricultural groups.  In no time, the agricultural groups from the county decided to form an association.  This association joined with others across the state and formed a state seed federation.  In a few more years, the states started a national Seed Broadcasting Convention.

This national Seed Broadcasting Convention developed a system that enabled any agricultural reverence gathering, regardless of size, to participate in seed propagation across the nation and around the world.  Because of their cooperation to give 10% of their income, all agricultural gatherings, regardless of size, participated. 

The simplistic agricultural facility grew and started having weekly gatherings with more songs, more instruments, and more classes.  They decided to call a full-time carpologist.  A few years later they decided they needed a carpologist secretary and someone to lead the group in seed inspired music.

In the process of time, sowers spent more and more time at fellowships and less time in the fields.  The agricultural reverence gathering offered studies on types of soil, kinds of farming techniques, and various farming equipment.  They started programs that would raise money for seed awareness in the community, across the state, and around the world.

When excitement for seed sowing dwindled, the carpologist would invite a visiting charismatic carpologist to come and encourage a harvest renewal.  It was so successful that they expanded to doing one harvest renewal during pre-planting and another after harvest.

This lasted for a few years, more and more potential farmers became less involved with sowing seeds, and more interested with maintaining the agricultural society and the benefits it provided.  Sowers were more comfortable becoming spermologists.  The agricultural society, losing its seed sowing focus, slowly drifted toward seed worship.

The agricultural facility evolved as younger sowers focused more praising the seeds than planting them.  Where the traditional songs talked of the power of the seeds and the harvest, the contemporary songs incorporated more musical instruments, more emotions, and less carpology sound verses.  With continual decline, the agricultural reverence gatherings decided to change the way they gathered and where they planted seeds to attract people.  They determined that old soil was not vogue and decided to focus on new and uncultivated soil.  Finding the new soil, the original agricultural reverence gatherings continued to decline.

The move did bring potential sowers.  Spermologists decided that they would develop new techniques and clinics on cultivating.  Potential sowers outnumber veteran sowers and sowing dwindled.  Fewer seeds resulted in smaller harvest.  These modern agricultural reverence gatherings have an array of activities concerning the work of sowers.  The administration and management of these gatherings is a pattern for successful gathering growth.  However, the lead spermologist, associates, and the staff of the larger gatherings are expected to sow.  The rest enjoy the festivities. 

Veteran seed sowers of older agricultural reverence gatherings concentrated on maintaining the status quo.  Because they did not change sowing practices, they plant less seeds and produce little or no harvests.  Both young and old sowers forgot the basis spirit of seeds.  Seeds are remarkable.  Seeds are living organisms held in a state of suspended animation of dormancy.  The longevity of seeds is remarkable.  A seed with constant darkness, cool temperatures, and dryness will last for thousands of years.  Every seed has the potential to grow when given the opportunity.

The bottom line: seeds must be sown to produce harvest.



Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:  But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you (First Peter 1:23-25 KJV).



Note: Scientists have successfully planted a 2000-year-old Judean date palm seed.  The seed was found in the Judean desert and carbon tested for its age.  The date is called Methuselah.

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