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| "If You Don't Understand"by Paul Lytle
Saw a friend back home, And he said, "Friend I've seen So he said between the lines But I thought on all the If you don't understand If you can't comprehend He laughed and said that I But there was something If you don't understand If you can't comprehend And I don't understand And I can't comprehend * * *
I had a friend in a Bible Study I attended for a while. Of everyone in that particular Bible Study, she is the most recent convert to Christianity, but in many ways she is more mature than all of us. Her heart never ceases to seek God's will, and it pains her greatly to know that there are people who do not know the Lord. I cannot explain the love and growth that her mere questions have forced upon the group, but many of those questions have been very hard to answer. There have been times when she has become very frustrated that her witnessing does not seem to affect anyone. Christ used sowing and reaping many times in the Bible. In Matthew 13, He likens the Word of God to seeds strewn about a field. Some of the seeds land on the road, some on rocks, some amongst thorns, and some in good soil. Those who hear the Word but do not understand it are like the seeds on the road. Some hear the Word and embrace it, but they have no foundation, and they cannot learn quickly enough. At the slightest whim they are ruined. These are like the seeds on the stone. Others hear, but the world becomes too much with them, and the Word is choked out of them. These are like the seeds amongst the thorns. Lastly, the seeds that fall in good soil grows to produce more seeds, and he himself thrives. What is our job in all of this? It is to toss out seeds. Some will grow, and others will not. Some will seem to die and then rise up later. Many stalks we will never see, but we have thrown the seed. Sometimes, that is enough. There have been countless times when we are just frustrated at a friend or relative who will not hear the Word. Many of us do not feel it quite so deeply as this woman has, but we feel it deeply enough. We have all wished to cry out to the Lord, "Why, O Father, will my seeds not take root?" The trouble is, they aren't my seeds, but the seeds of He who sent me. The Spirit makes them grow, not me. It is not my job to make the seeds grow. I did not die upon the Cross for that person. I cannot save him. Because we feel something deeply does not mean that we know something deeply. We cannot love as God does, we cannot know as He does, we cannot feel in that way, and we cannot understand everything that is going on. We must simply keep planting the seeds. We must continue in prayer and meditation, and we must follow the path that God sets for us. There is no more that we can do. -Paul |
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