WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
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Matthew 13:24-30 reads thus:
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24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and
went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will
say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
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The act of the man in the parable - sowing good seed - is symbolic of all the good works we do both to God and humanity. We give good offerings, we render humanitarian services, we act in honesty, we maintain peace, obey constituted authority, keep to time, etc, but yet our results do not match our good input. Sometimes we may even experience a contrary results. Sometimes the people to whom we even do good turn around to reward us with evil. Legal and 'godly' businesses are most times very likely to fail. The innocent are usually the highest casualty of any war. This shows that innocence, purity, holiness gentleness, goodness, etc, alone are never a gurantee for safety. Satan is always very angry with any good work, so he would always sow tares to corrupt it.
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A very great error of the sowers is that they went to sleep after sowing their good seed. This also the grave error of chistiandom. Today so many a christian is asleep after rendering good works. The devil never sleeps, he would always come at night to steal, to kill and to destry. Amos 6:1 says "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and
trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!" CHRISTIANS ARE SO MUCH ASLEEP IN PRAYERLESSNESS. This the singular reason why we suffer defeat in sickness, untimely death, crisis, poverty, oppression of occultism and witchcraft, etc. You are expected to stay awake (in prayers) and watch over your seed.
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Matthew 8:11 says that the seed is the word of God. There is no situation on earth that does not have the word solution. It is left for you to watch over that word-seed in prayers and meditation to keep the devil away and allow for its growth for the fruition of your testimonies.
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Ironically, muslims pray 5 times a day, jews pray thee times a day. Buddists and Hindus spend so much time in meditation, yet a greater percentage of christians only pray serimoniously during sunday services and general prayer meetings. They never have a prayer closet which Jesus Christ recomends in Matthew 6:6. THIS IS WHY WE CHISTIANS ARE SUFFERING DEFEAT. It is high time we rediscoverd prayer which is and has always been the weapon of christian victory.