Day 89 Bible Reading

Numbers 28 and 29, Luke 8: 1-18, Psalm 48: 1-8

Luke 8: 4-8 (ESV)

“And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,  “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.  And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.  And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.  And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.””

I read a commentary on verses 4 through 8 from Luke 8 which was new for me. Instead of thinking we are one of the soils (the path, the rock, the thorns, and the good soil), we should see ourselves in seeing bit our ourselves in all four soils.

Sometimes we are like the path where we allow the word of God to have no room in our lives. Sometimes we are like the rock when we have feel moved by the word of God, but whatever we feel is quickly burnt out. Sometimes we are like the thorns because we hear the word of God, but the cares of lives and the love of money are constantly threatening to choke out God’s word and our faithfulness. And finally, sometimes we are like the good soil because the word of God takes root in our heart, mind, and soul and bears fruit in our lives.

I think if we can determine what type of soil we are that day when we hear God’s word, we can figure out how to turn it around and make sure God’s words takes root in our hearts, mind, and soul and bears fruit in our lives.