Separate The Shaft From The Grain
Farmers buy seeds that have been sifted to remove weed seeds. If you leave the weed seeds in, they will take nutrients away from the good seeds, and your field will be overrun with weeds, which does not help anyone except those who sell weed-killing chemicals. Weed-free crops make for a bountiful and fruitful harvest that will feed many. We always separate the shaft from the corn seeds, and you can see the shaft flying through the air and landing on the ground around the grain cleaner. When we plant soybeans, the volunteer corn that comes up is considered a weed that needs to be killed to have excellent, clean soybeans that will bring top prices at the elevator.
Hanging Around With The Wrong Crowd
If you hang around with people up to no good, you will tend to follow them, leading you down a downward spiral of destruction. Do not do something that you know is wrong just to fit in with the crowd. Do not become someone you cannot look at in the mirror when you wake up to a new day. Never let someone make you into someone you no longer like or cannot recognize anymore.
Your Actions Will Catch Up With You Eventually
You will eventually have to face up to the consequences of your actions. If you have been bad and have not repented, you will be held accountable for your actions on judgment day. The shaft will be separated from the grain. If you have done worse than good deeds, you may be lost to all eternity forever.
You Do Not Study
If you do not study in school, you waste your time and your teacher’s time. It pays to study and be prepared for tests and get good grades. It has been proven that the more education you have, the higher your pay will be in life, and you will have a job you enjoy. If you do not apply yourself in school, you will not apply yourself at your job or in other areas of your life. Your education or lack of education follows you around your entire life. Beauty fades, but your education lasts forever.
Tend Your Garden And Prune Your Trees
A garden not weeded or fertilized does not produce much of anything. A soul that is not attended to is lost and will not grow. If you do not remove the dead branches on a tree, it will weaken the strong branches, diseases will enter the tree, and it will wither and die. A man that does not pray and does not nourish his soul withers and dies. Fruit trees that are not trimmed keep producing smaller and smaller fruit until there is no need to pick the fruit as there is little nourishment now. Prune out the people in your life who add no nourishment to your soul and try to take you down to a dark place that you wish not to enter. Once you enter, it is very hard to get back on the solid rock you once were on. Stay on the path God has made for you, for without God, you are nothing.
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