I found myself mulling over
the parable of the sower. The sower is God who spreads His word liberally around
to all. The question the parable presents is this…does the seed sown germinate
and grow into a full crop?
Some people hear the Word
but it never sinks in… that’s the seed that falls on the hard-packed path. It
just doesn’t germinate at all!
Then there are people who
seem to receive the Word with joy, but after a brief time they fall back into
their pre-word ways. Germination of the seed stalls and the seed never matures…
this is the seed in rocky soil. There just isn’t enough soil to support the
seed’s full growth so it dies out.
Next comes seed, which
never takes root. It starts to grow, like that in the rocky soil, but here the
pressures of life –trouble, persecution, etc.- suck the life out of the seed and
it withers and dies.
Finally there is the seed
that comes to mature crop. Think of one kernel of corn,,, it produces a stalk
with multiple ears of corn and each ear has hundreds of kernels… thus the
extraordinary yield!
For me this parable offers
a warning to examine my faith-life. Am I still growing, maturing, producing
fruit? This is where I am pondering today.
How about
you…???
Lord, nourish
my soil with Your Holy Spirit so that my life will continue to grow in You and
produce a kingdom yield of fruit that honors and blesses You, my Lord and
Savior. Amen.
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