University of Maryland quarterback Malik Washington saw the biblical Parable of the Soils come to life during his team’s game last weekend.
“The parable I have for you today is Matthew 13, and it’s about soil, right? Like setting a foundation. I think coming off the first week, it’s important to set a foundation, and we did that today,” he said in an Instagram video.
“It talks about, you know, the farmer who had four seeds and planted them on four different types of soils,” the quarterback described. “One was the path, right, which they gave no room for it to grow. There was no place for it to take root. It was stuck on rocks. It had no place to sink into the ground. Second is the shallow soil. It sprouted, but, you know, there wasn’t enough place for it to grow some deep roots, so it couldn’t get into the sunlight the way it needed.”
“The third is the soil with the thorns around it. You kind of want to stay away from that in this game. You don’t want to have a lot of thorns around you within your program because you may blossom for a little bit, but all the thorns are going to do is just choke you out and not allow you to get to the place that you want to go,” Washington, who has Jeremiah 29:11 in his Instagram bio, continued.
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The fourth type of soil is what Washington and his team planted their seed in during their game against Hampton University.
“And then, last but certainly not least, the fertile soil, which is what we did today. We planted our seed in some soil today, and we showed you know who we are as a team, very well-rounded. I’m just really proud of everybody and what we did today,” Washington concluded.
Maryland beat Hampton 62-0 in their first regular season game of the season. Washington “threw for 186 yards and a touchdown against the Pirates, opening his sophomore campaign with a win and surpassing 3,000 career passing yards,” Maryland football reported.
Washington, a true sophomore, is stepping into the QB1 position again this year, and it seems faith will continue to lead him, as it did last season.
“Jesus loves you, and no matter how far gone you think you may be, God’s always waiting for you,” he said after his team’s final game last year. “All you have to do is take that first step toward Him and He’s ready to embrace you with open arms. No matter how far out there you may be, how many trials or tribulations you’re going through, as long as you turn toward Him, He’ll be able to carry it for you.”
For a Maryland program looking to build on last season, Washington’s reminder from Matthew 13 doubled as a mission statement: strip away the distractions, the excuses and the shortcuts, and focus on the fundamentals that let a team actually grow.
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