Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Seeds vary. There are agricultural seeds, spiritual seeds, financial seeds, emotional seeds, physical seeds, reproductive seeds, academic seeds, technological seeds, etc. whatever seeds you are blessed with, please note that a major characteristic of seeds is to reproduce themselves through addition, multiplication and compounding only after they are planted.
Plant your seeds on good ground so that they can
germinate, grow, bud, flourish to harvests so that you can have great and
abundant harvests. That way you will not waste precious seed especially quality
seeds. Seeds are divinely designed to be planted on good ground to grow and
bear good fruit for great harvests. Please see Genesis Chapters 8 verse 22, and
26 verses 12 to 14. They are not designed to be trampled down and devoured by
the birds of the air as in the case of the seeds that fell by the wayside. The
wayside was open, exposed and was actually a thoroughfare for anyone, just
anyone including people who had no respect for seeds. So the seeds were
trampled down and with no protection whatsoever, they were devoured by birds. Please
note the choice of words – trampled down because they were not sown in the
right place; beneath the earth in specially selected land areas designated for
growing seed and secured from human and animal traffic. The seeds are further
secured by planting them beneath the earth; safe from predatory animals and
birds as well as unobservant and who knows insensitive human passersby.
Building on another person’s land is akin to dropping your precious God given seed by the wayside; exposed to predators and the elements where they can be easily trampled down and devoured. What such an action suggests is that you do not have any regard for your seed. It has no value whatsoever to you therefore does not deserve to be protected and secured. Anyone, just anyone can have access to your seed irrespective of what their intentions are; whether good or bad are to the seed. It also speaks of carelessness, non chalance, or perhaps ignorance. You have no idea how to manage precious seed and you have no intention of learning how to do so; so you throw them just anywhere. It could also suggest that the seeds though precious are burdensome to you so you cannot wait to get rid of them as fast as you can. So you drop them just anywhere which also explains why some seeds fell on rock and others amongst thorns.
It is true that Jesus Christ used this parable to
illustrate the impact of the word of God on different hearts or should I say
the response of different hearts to the gospel. But please permit me to also
use it to illustrate how people treat the divine gifts God blessed them with.
In this case, the sower will be you and I while the seed represents the divine
gifts God put in all of us at creation. While some people value, treasure and
trade their gifts for profit like the two diligent servants in the parable of
talents (Matthew Chapter 25 verses 14 to 30), some other people actually
disdain, have no value and respect for theirs which explains why they treat
their gifts the way the unprofitable servant handled his one talent. Such
people drop their seeds by the wayside, on rock and amongst thorns.
Consequently they lose their seeds as well as the expected harvests from their
seeds. They then blame their losses on people, circumstances and not on their
lack of foresight, knowledge and probably laziness as in the case of the
vineyard owner devoid of understanding in Proverbs Chapter 24 verses 30 to 34.
Beloved, these categories of people are no different from the prodigal son when
he had not repented; the slothful described in Proverbs Chapter 18 verse 9 as
brother to him who is a great destroyer and which is further reiterated in Ecclesiastes
Chapter 10 verse 18.
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