THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER EXPLAINED
Keywords
13:23
But the one who
received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and
understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times
what was sown.
1. The three bad kinds of ground (18-22)
Jesus
said that the parable of the sower is about whose heart can receive the word of
God. The first type of ground, the path, is like someone with a hard heart; as
soon as they hear the word, the devil takes it away. The rocky ground is like
someone who responds with joy to the word, but they don’t put down deep roots, and so they fall away when
persecution comes. The weedy soil represents a person for whom the concerns of
earthly life choke the growth of God’s word.
Considering these spiritual dangers, we can examine the condition of our own
hearts before God.
2. Good
heart soil (23)
If our
heart is a soil where the word of God can take root, we have great prospects.
We will grow spiritually mature and our life will be a blessing to many people.
We can ask the Holy Spirit to soften our hard hearts, and we can prioritize
meditating on God’s word
until it transforms our inner self.
Prayer Lord Jesus,
thank you for your insight about how the word of God grows in our hearts.
Please make me good soil to bear fruit for your kingdom.
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