Parable Of The Sower & His (Modern) Hidden Power
Here is the Parable of
the Sower as contained in Matthew
13 (New Revised Standard Version Updated
Edition):
That same day Jesus
went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around
him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the
beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying:
“Listen! A sower went
out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on a path, and the birds came and
ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much
soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the
sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away.
Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other
seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some
sixty, some thirty.”
The parable begins by saying that Jesus was a great preacher, and that he could mesmerize the
crowd. This parable speaks of a farmer (sower) who is an unseasoned or careless
planter so much so that he did not care whether the seeds he was sowing fell on
rocky ground, or weedy spots, or on good soil.
Unfortunately,
that farmer in the Bible is not much different from the millions of modern
farmers in the Philippines alone!
An alumnus of UP Los Baños, BS Agriculture, major Ag Edu, 1965;
counting from 1975, I am an old sower of Science or Knowledge in the fields of
Agriculture and Forestry. So I know that our farmers do not practice good
modern science in the form of regenerative farming, of which I started to
seriously write about almost 2 years ago (read my essay, “Regenerative Farming
– Enriching The Soil Enriching The Farmers,” 29 Oct 2020, Brains & Beauty Agriculture, blogspot.com).
If you want the soil to produce much yield, you have to take
much care of it first! If you want to produce plenty of healthy foods, you must
practice Regenerative Agriculture (RA) – this is God’s power invoked by humans.
(“Growing Resilience” from understandingag.com)
Today,
Chemical Agriculture (CA) multiplies each seed the farmer sows into a thirty,
or sixty, or hundredfold – but the foods CA produces are an abomination to the
bodies of the consumers – because they contain chemical nutrients and pesticide
residues – thus, the modern farmer is not much different from the careless sower
in the Bible. He must be taught that he has God’s power, RA, hidden in nature
as discovered by science!@517
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