Lesson 19: Not everything grows well
Despite our best efforts not everything we planted grew. Some things grew well. The tomato plants produced tomatoes. The bean plants produced beans. The beet plants produced beets. But some things just never grew. I could not blame it on the rabbits or the groundhog. I treated every plant alike, watering and feeding them. For example I planted a little spruce tree, put fertilizer underneath it and carefully watered it every day. But despite my best efforts it died. So did some of my turnip plants and all of my asparagus. But I was thankful for those that did grow.
In your life not everything you attempt to do for the Lord will succeed. You do your best to plant seeds of faith in the hearts of children in your life. Some grow up to be preachers. Some grow up to prostitutes. You did your best. You witness to your friends and neighbours. Some come to faith. Some do not. You volunteer at your church or favourite charity and your project fails. You start an outreach program and it does not work. But some things that you do will work. Some things will grow. Be thankful for those that do.
Mark 4: 7,8
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.
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