Your son is seed - where you going to plant him?

So I had a thought today about the parable of the weeds. Then I asked myself what kind of soil am I in? Typically I see myself as the seed and that's all I see in the parable. The soil is secondary. I don't know why I've never thought of this before. Maybe I have, but now God is bringing it to my attention again. Anyway, this leads me to think of my life. Can I choose the type of soil I am in by the moral choices that I have. Is it by what I watch on television, the amount of stuff I let myself buy, and the music I listen to fertilizing my soil or totally messing up the PH spiritual balance in it.

So this leads me to think of Cam and within the context of the parable I see Cam as a seed and I see that I can decide where to plant him. Since I make all the choices for him, for the most part, currently, I can choose to plant him in the good soil or not. This definitely is a trickle down effect from my life so unless I'm in the good soil there is no way for Cam to be as well. At least, while I'm making the choices for him.

I'm reminded of Colossians right now. It's the part where we choose to dress in love, kindness, gentleness and self-discipline. We need to choose to put on Christ, it does not happen automatically. If we spend our days saying we are working on things in a counseling setting and expect to heal and get better that way it will be as Joe Stowell calls a "functional disconnect", because we may get there. We may get to that point of being healed and fixing this one area of our life, but it will be without Christ. Instead of using it as an opportunity for Christ to come in and fill it we will develop a stubborn will and learn to rely on ourselves in this area instead of Jesus. We need to come as infants to God.