And the others weren't much better, either. Elijah, long before Christ, along with Jeremiah and other prophets as well, were notable failures, most of them being taken outside the walls of Jerusalem and thereupon stoned to death. Up to this point my remarks all sound terribly dismal and discouraging. But my point today is that we need to remember that Jesus did not let apparent failure stop Him. Jesus went on in His parable to talk about a crop that yielded a harvest in varying amounts of success, some yields being a spectacular success.
Crisis is made up of both danger and opportunity.
True there are multitudes of evil that surround us, but many of those evils are slowly being overcome. God IS at work among us bringing good out of evil. We must remember that in the hands of God the slightest good can be multiplied to feed thousands if we but hand our efforts into His care and providence . You and I, like all good farmers who continually face floods and disasters of every sort, need to seriously engage ourselves in the enterprise of faith and hope, planting what we have, planting the best of what we have, and then letting God's sun and gentle winds and rains do the rest. God's only-begotten Son, along with the gentle breath of His Holy Spirit, provide waters of grace to nourish and sustain what He has planted.