“But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.” Matthew 13:25
They used to call a person who tends plants a husbandman. The job entailed the care for the GOOD plants, and removal of the BAD ones… weeds! Looking out the back of the house along the fence, there was a war going on which now required a husbandman. Since I am the husband… that would be me!
YEARS ago my bride saw a viney plant, with yellow flowers, covering a portion of someone’s yard. Since we had a small unsightly part of yard, she plucked a piece and planted it. BIG mistake. 20 years later, that vine grows over the back fence and even throughout my grass. Last year, while wanting to attract butterflies, she discovered and planted a passion vine. Not only does it smell great, it attracts butterflies AND produces great tasting fruit. But now, these 2 vines are at warring for fence dominance! Their collision silently called for a simple husband….man. An inter’seeder’ if you will. I stepped forward.
I say ‘simple’ because in this case, I didn’t have to be very smart about plants. Which is a good thing, since I’m not. Even ‘I’ could EASILY tell the difference between the two competing weeds. The job? Rip out the bad and secure the good. Simple, right? Yes… but! When temperature collided with humidity and it felt like 107 degrees, the easy task turned into hard WORK! Which made me think about Grampa Adam and his TERRIBLE decision. After all, this is all HIS fault!!
God had placed Adam in the garden to ‘rule and reign.’ With 1 caveat… “Don’t eat ‘that’ fruit!” Adam did and got what he deserved. But THAT is not the story! The story is about GOD… not Adam! God had intended man to do a job, which forced GOD to become the Husbandman. He had created man to co-rule and reign with Him, and BY GOD THAT was what was going to happen…even if it killed Him! Flash forward!
The Church and mankind today are a bunch of simpletons who have forgotten God’s original plan. Hence, non-believers don’t care and believers don’t care enough. God even sent His Son on a deadly rescue mission to get us back on the track of working His garden! Yet it seems, all we want to do is go back home and get some rest! And the weeds continue to grow!
God is PASSIONATE about us, friend. And NOT for the purpose of saving us for Heaven where we’ll get a harp and wings! He created us to rule and reign WITH HIM. Not just THERE… but HERE as well! There is a WAR going on and we have a job to do. But how many of us really know what that role is? And… how many of us really WANT to know?
