Today's passage is the Parable of the Sower, in which Jesus tells the tale of a farmer sowing his seed on various different grounds.
"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." Luke 8: 5-8 [NIV]
Is there a message you have heard recently that you were skeptical about? A tale of God at work that you found hard to believe? I recall many times in my pre-Christian days when others tried tell me about God, but it always fell on hard, stony or thorny ground. I am sure many people tried to sow God's seed in my life during those years, but it never grew to fruition. The truth in the words was always destroyed. Then at the right time, when I was very hungry and thirsty for help, my ground was finally ready and the seed sown then grew to fruition, and my faith in God finally grew within me.
Sometimes my soil has become thorny again, and even though I know Gods words are the truth, the seed gets choked out by my worries and doubts. The goodness of Gods word is not able to develop within me because of my worries, and my focus is back on myself and not on the truths of Gods word.
How is your soil looking today? Is it good and rich, ready for God to plant new seed within you, or is it in need of a touch from the heavenly Gardener to get it back up to scratch?
Corinne Mason.
Read the Bible in a year: Psalm 38:13-22, Numbers 27:12-29:11, Luke 8:1-18
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