God of Good Seed

Like many Americans, I feel like I am in a constant fight with my yard. When I first moved into this house, most of the yard was taken up with or covered by trees - a giant ash tree right in the center of my property, the neighbors' maple giants, and one neighbor's private plot of some kind of pine or evergreen that hung over the fence just enough to drop its needles and permanently damage the pH of the soil in what I wanted to be my flower bed. 

Add to that a major flood that swept away a great amount of dirt and a lifetime of dogs (no regrets) whose urine routinely destroys patches of the littles bits of grass I've been able to have and the unpredictable midwest weather, which seems to scorch the entire earth for at least one long stretch per summer, and you can understand why having actual grass in my actual yard can seem like such a challenge. 

And yet...

And yet, I keep trying. I keep buying the bags of grass seed. I keep sowing it across the bare spots. I cultivate and aerate and spread and water and adjust my mowing and try to get any shades of green to start popping up. 

One of the things that has frustrated me in the past few years is how often I will buy a bag of grass seed and sow it around the bare spots of the yard only to have three little blades of tender grass crop up...and a whole new mess of weeds of varieties that I've never had in my yard before. 

The only thing I can figure is that not everything in that bag is grass seed. 

Some of that stuff, and it seems like this is increasingly so as the years go by and the quality of our commercial products go down, must be weed seed. 

It is never so with God. 

God talks a lot about seed in His Word. He talks about sowing and planting, reaping and harvesting, watering and growing. He talks about seed that falls on the good soil and seed that falls on the not-so-good places, places where it doesn't grow so well. He was talking to a people for whom seed was a way of life. A people who really understood seed and the importance of it. 

And what His Word repeatedly assures us is that God only ever plants good seed. (Jeremiah 2:21)

In other words, God's only planting the things that are supposed to grow. He's only putting out there the things that are supposed to come back to Him. If you get a bag of grass seed from God, there aren't any weeds in it. 

There are still weeds, of course; weeds are wild. And God acknowledges the reality of them in His parables. But the weeds are not in the seeds; the seed is pure. It's exactly and wholly and fully what it's supposed to be, with no rabble mixed in. 

So whatever God's planting in your life, you can be sure that it is pure. That doesn't mean there won't be weeds. It just means that what God is doing is exactly, wholly, and fully what God intends to do. Pure and simple.