Key Text: Luke 8:4-8
While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
Are you, spiritually speaking, good soil?
What I mean is, are you fertile ground for God’s word to take root in your life? I hope so.
Long ago, Jesus spoke to people who understood about the importance of good soil. They understood rich, fertile ground and they understood dry, barren, desert territory. They could grasp what a difference – what a life changing difference – it can make when one scatters seed in one rather than in the other.
Some, no doubt, lived among the rocks – literally. Others lived in the heart of the city. Still others lived on fertile farmland or walked in green pastures with their sheep. Some lived near the ocean sands or in the desert itself. All though, would understand the concept of seed being sown in the right or wrong kind of soil.
Thousands of years later, we of the “fast food” culture may have more difficulty understanding this old parable.
But it is as true and applicable as ever.
God plants seeds of faith in our lives – and we are either receptive ground for those seeds – or not.
I am no farmer and I don’t know the first thing about preparing the soil for a bumper crop of anything.
But I understand how important it is to daily prepare my heart, mind, soul, and body for the hearing, receiving, and living out of the words of Scripture.
How about you?
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