You must eliminate the weeds.<\/i> In His famous \u2018Parable of the Sower\u2019, Jesus said the seed fell into four different kinds of soil. \u2018The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life\u2019s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.\u2019<\/i> Notice, three varieties of \u2018weeds\u2019 can keep you from growing into spiritual maturity. <\/p>\n
(1) Worry.<\/i> You become so preoccupied with everyday cares that you take your eyes off Jesus. <\/p>\n
(2) Riches.<\/i> Making money and buying things dominates your life so much that you don\u2019t have time for the Lord. <\/p>\n
(3) Pleasure.<\/i> Pursuing \u2018the good life\u2019 can choke out your spiritual growth. It\u2019s ok to have a good time, but you need to protect your priorities. When you have time to shop, go to the beach, play golf, or spend hours watching television yet you don\u2019t have time to read your Bible and pray, your priorities are out of balance. <\/p>\n
You say, \u2018I just don\u2019t have time to serve the Lord. I\u2019m too busy. I don\u2019t have time to commit.\u2019 Then you are too busy! You\u2019d better do some weeding. Lots of things in life are not necessarily wrong; they are just not necessary. Maybe you need to cut back your schedule a little to remove the weeds. You have to tend your tomato plants, but you don\u2019t have to do anything to produce dandelions; they grow by themselves when you neglect your garden. Getting the idea? <\/p>\n
If the \u2018weeds\u2019 in your life are keeping you from bearing \u2018fruit\u2019, it\u2019s time to stop talking about it and take action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You must eliminate the weeds. In His famous \u2018Parable of the Sower\u2019, Jesus said the seed fell into four different kinds of soil. \u2018The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life\u2019s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}