Food plots-Mark 4:1-34

        I'm not going to write the verses out because there are 34 of them and this would make a really long entery so I'm just going to say it in my own words and then what it means to me. If you would like to look it up you can.
        These are the chapters that Jesus uses to teach so they are stories and illustrations. Most of us, if we grew up in a Christian home, have heard these stories over and over and we know what they mean but I was studying them this week and got a new point of view on them. These are the stories of the farmer scattering the seeds, illustration of the growing seed, and the illustration of the mustard seed. I found these stories to be interesting as I thought about the fields which the seeds were in and how they grew. To me, the 3 different seeds that the farmer planted, means that we have to have good grounds with the people we are trying to reach or nothing will happen.
           When I was really reading these stories a food plot came to mind along with all the other kinds of fields that a farmer can plant. Everything starts small like a seed but then it grows. It can grow into a food plot and then a great big field. That seed that you or the Lord started might start out small but it will turn into something big for Him if people take care of it. Give it encouragement and the things it needs. In a food plot you could be limited to how many seeds you can plant or people you can reach. You are trying to get people in that food plot so you can teach them about God's Words and then you can release them out into the world. I'm thinking along the lines of food plots for deer. Not quite the same but do you see the comparison I'm trying to make.
            The illustration of the mustard see does just this. Whatever you start out doing don't give up because it can become big. It takes that one mustard seed in a little food plot to make a big field. In time, though, it will keep growing wiser and older causing it to move on to different things and places but yet it still has that power.
             The Kingdom of Heaven is like that as well as the plans God has for our lives. We might not see everything at once but bit by bit we do. If we do the small things well that He gives us to do then He will give us bigger and better things to do with Him. We are working towards the Kingdom of Heaven, therefore, things should only get better for us because we know that no matter what we are going through God is right beside us and the bigger picture is Heaven at the end.