Parables of Life
Presented by Prophet John Zeppa
Each Sunday morning, before the day’s message, House of Sacrifice provides Parables of Life. Parables of Life leads listeners through a heart-warming and eye-opening tale that shows people a truth about life. These truths often relate to our connection to and relationship with the Lord.
Parables of Life also helps us see what is valuable and helps us understand how to avoid the blunders we may often face in life. For example, Jesus uses the parable of the man who sold all he owned to buy a field that held an immense treasure. The Lord is the immense treasure, and as followers of Christ, we would give all we own to know Him more. We hope you find these parables inspiring and helpful throughout your week.
Prophet John Zeppa
This Month's Story
Prepare to Be Blessed
There was a young farmer who owned a wide and fertile field. At the start of each planting season, he would walk its rows with a leather pouch tied at his waist. Inside were many kinds of seeds.
But one year, he grew impatient.
Instead of preparing the soil, he scattered seed carelessly some among thorns, some on hard paths, some where stones lay just beneath the surface. “Seed is seed,” he said. “Surely something will grow.”
His neighbor, an older farmer, worked differently. He rose before dawn to turn the soil. He removed rocks. He pulled weeds at the root. Only then did he sow, pressing each seed into good ground. When drought threatened, he watered. When pests came, he guarded the crop.
Months passed.
The impatient farmer’s field sprouted quickly in places, but the shoots among the rocks withered in the heat. The seeds among thorns were choked. The seeds on the path were eaten by birds. By harvest, his yield was thin and uneven.
He went to his neighbor and complained. “Why has God favored your field and not mine?”
The older farmer answered gently, “The Lord gives seed to the Sower and rain to the earth. But the field remembers what is sown and how it is tended.”
He continued, “You cannot sow neglect and reap abundance. You cannot sow selfishness and reap peace. You cannot sow dishonesty and reap trust. God is not mocked the harvest reflects the seed and the sowing.”
The younger farmer lowered his head. “Is it too late for my field?”
The older farmer smiled. “As long as there is another season, there is another sowing. Prepare the ground. Choose better seed. Tend it faithfully. The same sun that exposed your loss can ripen your obedience.”
The next season, the younger farmer worked the soil first. He sowed with care. He prayed for rain. And when harvest came, his field stood full not because the land had changed, but because the sowing had.
From a biblical lens, sowing and reaping is both a warning and a promise.
Whatever a person sows, that will they also reap (Galatians 6:7).
But God, in His mercy, always gives another season to plant what is good.