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.
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