Is your ground good?

Alma makes a distinction between a bad seed and barren ground. After proving that the seed is good there is no guarantee of receiving the fruit. If your ground is barren the tree will die before you can taste the fruit. The interesting thing is your locus of control – you can’t control whether you will be introduced to good seeds or not but you can control whether your ground had been maintained to notify good seeds of you encounter them. You can choose what kind of environment you cultivate, whether it will be blueprint to good seeds or whether it will only be fit for weeds (or whether it will not support anything).