Much To Wonder About

Here is what is going on inside of this simple brain.  Seeds and soil, wheat and weeds. And how they all work.

Seeds are what God generously sows upon the earth.

The soil — the earth — has many depths of possible growth. Some is compatible producing good growth; and some offers a challenge for healthy maturation.

Wheat represents good.

Weeds represent something not so good. Like an irritation.  Or even more that an irritation — evil.

In all of these metaphor, something is missing in the  purely nature based, parables.   

I am thinking the parables somehow are suggesting a forth component, in the process of activity, in God’s kingdom.

What is troubling me is it seems all to neat and definable. 

But we all know that all created ecosystems get messy and unclean; not predicable and often undefined.

I am thinking that in all of these elements, of nature, there are levels — layers — of growth, death and failure to bring God’s purpose to the whole of life.

Nothing is clear cut, nor understandable.  

There must be many variables involved in God’s creation — and all of His creatures.  Nothing fits in to boxes abled A, B, C, D or X Y and Z.  

If the Apostle Part is correct, and I am thinking he is.  Then all of nature and human elements fall short.

21 But now, irrespective of law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, ²²the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, ²³since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; ²⁴they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,(Rom. 3) 

Did you catch it?   

 Then there has to be some kind of dividing line.  A point at which a sinner becomes evil.

In the maze of theological thinking there is a point of no return.  A time when the weed’s irritation become a follower of the evil one.

Sad but seemingly true.

Yet, even thinking that puts up a red flag for me.  The robber hanging with Jesus on the cross who realized his mistake, with his last breath.

As much as the right wing conservative Christians what to put all sinners in the same fatal box doomed to hell.  Jesus forgives at the very last moment before the last breath is taken.

To be continued.