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Last week we studied the first part of Jesus’ twelfth parable; we will be looking at the concluding part this week.  
The parable of the “weeds and good plants” discouraged prematurely weeding the field because some good plants could be destroyed along with the weeds (collateral damage).
Do you see yourself as a good plant, or as a weed?
A good plant bears fruit while a weed selfishly and greedily takes up whatever good there is in the land without producing anything. A weed takes, grows, and dies fruitlessly; it is often set aside for uprooting and burning.
But do you know that because nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37), He can change weeds to good plants? Do you realize that is why God is so patient with sinners; He gives us all chances to metamorphose from weeds to good plants, from sinners to the redeemed?
I am a firm believer that those that wait upon the Lord shall have their strength renewed; they shall do extraordinary feats (Isaiah 40:31). I also know that those that sow in tears shall ultimately reap in joy (Psalm 126:5-6).
It is possible to be a weed today and a good plant tomorrow; only God the Eternal Creator can make this happen, and He continually does this in the lives of everyday men and women like us! Whatever inadequacies you experience, give it over to God, and you will experience His renewal and restoration.
In God’s eyes, a weed is a good plant waiting to manifest, and a good plant is created to bear fruit through inspiring the weed to productiveness. Weeds can transform to good plants, and good plants can inspire fruitfulness in others.
Whichever one you are, STAY THE COURSE, AND STAND!!

Lesson of the Week

1. Ask God to change you into a fruitful, good plant (John 15:3-5).
2. Ask God to recreate and remake you for better things (Psalm 51:1-13).
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future (author unknown).
If you are a saint (a righteous person, a good plant), you began your journey somewhere. Likewise, if you are a weed (struggling with God’s instructions for His children), you are headed somewhere!
Our responsibility is to always ask God to make us better, changing from worse to bad, from bad to good, from good to better, and so on. Only the Creator of All things is able to change weeds to good plants, and to call forth the things that do not exist and cause them to BE! Only He is patient, wise, and merciful enough to do these things for those who do not YET know Him or acknowledge His Son, Jesus as lord, savior, and king.
I urge us this week to pick ourselves up, and to get back on the straight and narrow road of transformation. It is not an easy road, for our Lord Jesus said of this road: “…only a few people can find it…”(Matthew 7:13-14).
But at the end, we are assured of living lives worth emulating, of bearing fruit that endures, and of making positive impacts in the lives of others. We are sure of our next destination….
For now, we, the weeds and the good plants, live together; dreading or anticipating the day of harvest! 

Weekly Nugget: “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” (Isaiah 1:16-19, KJV).

Dr. Kene D. Ewulu ministers from Columbia, South Carolina, The United States.
All scriptures were linked from www.biblegateway.com

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