How Are We Connected to Parables? (Matthew 13)

When I was a little girl, I would watch this show that used to come on called The Adventures of the Book of Virtues. There was a book that my teacher would read us one story at a time. These stories would be filled with what is happening in each story and what we need to learn from each one. Well, Matthew 13 is one of a few bible passages that would entail us to learn something from each story or parable.

What is a parable? Well, it is a story that simply is used to illustrate a spiritual meaning in us. Matthew 13 shows us what each parable meant to us in terms of knowledge. Reading this passage gave me three insights that I got from the six parables in the story.

The first insight: Just like farmers, we are able to receive God's words in our hearts and let it grow.
Matthew 13:1-23
 This parable illustrates to us what being a farmer meant when it comes to Jesus. We would receive it and keep it in our hearts. But, can we still have it in our hearts. The evil path would end up with you not receiving it and disappear quickly. The rocky and thorny paths are well you would end up receiving it, but it would disappear quickly as soon as possible when you would get it. However, when you would use the good path, we are able to hear it and we would be able to multiply it towards others. The lesson that we learned was that using our good soil, we are able to receive it and grow from others.

The second insight: There can be weeds inside our farms that can be grown.
Matthew 13:24-30; 13:36-43
Farms have a great harvest and then there are some weeds that would be grown on the fields. Our lives would be much the same with the fact that we would have weeds in our lives that Satan would sown into us. However, the farmer or Jesus wanted us to grab them in a bundle and burned them. That brought us to the word of the day which means repentance. The explanation of the parable is basically that the farmer wanted to see if most of them would turn to wheat and if most didn't, then the weeds would be brought out in a bundle and burned. Same with us, we need to turn over a new life and throw the weeds of our life away and burned it.

The third insight: Just like seeds, we are growing in God's kingdom.
Matthew 13: 31-35
The parable of the mustard seed is like our lives that would be made. We all know that God is growing in our lives and also that we would reach His full potential. In verse 32, the seeds that are made and grown are used to show us that this is how the kingdom of God was growing in life. This parable is showing us that the kingdom is growing as well.

Farmers would often sow their seeds in the fields to create wonderful harvests, just like humans that would do the same when they would get the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The parables of the farmers and the weeds and the seeds are examples of how we would reach Jesus Christ in our hearts.

Have a good day and a great time!!!

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