Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Our souls are like soil and we are like emotion farmers. Our emotions, like plants, grow up and out from within us. Each of us is a plot of land where emotions grow. We are charged with the duty of identifying the fruit and the weeds and promoting the prior and pulling out the latter. Our hearts, like land, by nature are wild. Once domesticated, they turn feral without constant attention. The wild west can become a garden state by domestication, but it can return to wilderness by abandonment. Our souls, by nature, are a soil rich with weeds. We produce poisonous emotions without effort. But by God's grace, we can be tilled up, though we cannot, by God's command, remain unfruitful. We will produce something. If we do not gardenize ourselves, we will again go wild, producing weeds and becoming overgrown by invasive, unwanted emotions. But if we follow God's pattern of planting, pulling, pruning, fencing, tending, etc... we will continue to be fruitful, well-ordered, and not only capable of killing weeds, but committed to it.
Mark 4:13
And He said unto them, "Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?"
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