I was reading tonight in Mark, the parable of the seeds. We've all heard and read it, many times I'm sure. The farmer sows some seed, some falls on the path where people walk, some in shallow soil, some in thorns, and some in fertile soil. Jesus explains it to his discples as the seed = the Word of God. The soil being ME and how I accept the word.
Am I like the footpath that the seed doesn't even go into my spirit? Satan snatches it before it has the chance.
Am I like the shallow soil? I accept the Word, and am overjoyed by it, but when troubles come my way it washes away quickly because there are no roots.
Do I have thorns in my life that grow up over the Word of God that chokes it out and kills it?
Or am I fertile soil for God's Word? Am I cultivating an enviroment where God's Word reigns in my life? Do I take care of my "soil"? Unfortunately, though I am still working toward it, I don't think I've got good fertile soil yet. But I am cultivating my soil. I want God's Word to go in me, I want to take it in and it make a difference in my life. I want to be able to take His Word, and give it to others, so when the farmer (Jesus) comes, I have produced a crop "thirty, sixty or a hundred times the amount of seen planted".
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