Good Soil

“In this parable there are two constants, the seed and the soil…

The Seed – is the Word…

The farmer throws the seed on every type of soil…this tells us something about the love of God… He gives all of us a shot, irregardless of the results…

Our God is not an economist, He’s a loving Father “not willing that any should parish”… He gave His life for everyone knowing that the majority of the world would reject Him…

Believers, we must ask ourselves; ‘are we giving everyone we know a shot at salvation despite what we assume the condition of their ground is.’

The Soil – the condition of the heart… The seeds were the same… the soil is the difference, the condition of the heart…

We need both seed (word) and good soil (good heart condition) in order to know Him and grow in that relationship…

It’s been my experience that hardened soil doesn’t happen in a moment, but over time, (informal paths)… It’s so easy to allow our hearts to become compacted over time; to resist the plowing of God…

The very nature of what it is the be a Christian is like oil and water in a world that loves its sin…

The Christian walk is the hardest walk, yet it’s the easiest…

“Cares” – worries, anxiety… the fear of man is a snare… fear rules the hearts of so many…

“deceitfulness of riches” – prosperity and hardship… both can pull us away from God, Israel would be blessed, and forget the God from whom the blessing came…

“desires for other things” – forbidden desire, lusts… anything taken out of its proper context, and proportion…

“These thorns “choke” or “smother” the word; drawing off so much of our attention, absorbing so much of our interests, and use up so much of our time, until only the dregs of our life remain for spiritual things…

“Hear” – we begin with ‘listen’ in verse 3, 9, and end with hear… God is telling us something… in order for us to have good soil we need to have a listening ear towards Him… we need to live in a listening posture towards God…

“Accept” – delight in, receive, take up, take upon one’s self… we are to delight in the Lord… we are to take His word as true, more than just hear, allow it to be our guide, our treasure…

“Bear” – to be fertile, to bring forth in deeds… we’re not only to listen, and believe as true, but allow it to transform us… not earning grace, but rightly responding to grace…

Every tree in God’s garden is to bear fruit, yes in varying degrees… but all are given this capability within dependency in God…

One of the greatest costs of bad soil is the fruit we do not bear… it’s the missed harvest…

“Break up the fallow ground”… it takes work to get and maintain good soil… it takes a lot of “hearing the word and accepting it and bearing fruit”

God doesn’t just want to move in your heart for your sake, but for the sake of a dying world… So what type of soil will you be? What will be the story of your heart? Will you humbly give yourself to Gods plow?”

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