Shine Like the Sun

Good morning to all and I can't believe its been five days since I re-visited my blog. Its not because I haven't been praising God for truly He is worthy of praise each day. God fills my days with Waine with wonder and love and at times I feel so blessed I can't hardly contain myself. We are busy getting ready for Aleron's graduation and as we launch our last child I am praising God for bringing our family through. This adventure fills me with such overflowing joy. It's just what Christ preached about--the abundance of life that is available to all that trust and obey. No one can write your story but you and Christ. Amen and amen!

I am continuing my journey in Matthew 13 verses 24-47, "Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?' 'An enemy did this,' he replied. The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' 'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.' He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches." He told them still another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough." Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."Then He left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field." He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear! Amen ans in Jesus name let them hear!

These parables are GREAT! What struck me is that as Christians, we were sown to live our harvest in furtile ground and the sin that enters our lives fills our environment with confusion, stressors and potential calamity however in the parable the "sin weeds" cannot destroy us! Hallelujah! Once you have planted your life in the soil of the Holy Spirit you will thrive despite that sin that surrounds you; we need only to stand in the SON and be an example with just our lives! Words do not havve to be spoken if you let your light shine, shine, shine! we are to shine like the sun, the Son. Stop lookn at the "weeds" they cannot harm you and if you ever needed scriptures to testify to this fact you now have it.

Be blessed today and Shine!

Stephanie