PREPARE YOUR HEART 💕 (Holy Week Post)

The main message of the Parable of the Sower is Spiritual Growth.

A man went out to sow grain.

The man represents God and the seed is his message.

Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of God starts to deepen and grow within a person.

Did you know?

Data shows, out of the four grounds (hearts of men) mentioned in the parable, only one fourth grew and enjoyed life in full.

My best friend told me a story to share – The Parable of the Sower.

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER

” A FARMER was sowing grain in his fields. As he scattered the seed across the ground, some fell beside a path, and the birds came and ate it.

AND SOME fell on rocky soil where there was little depth of earth; the plant sprang up quickly enough in the shallow soil, but the hot sun soon scorched them and they withered and died, for they had so little root.

OTHER SEEDS fell among thorns, and the thorns choked out the tender blades.

BUT SOME fell on good soil and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as he had planted. If you have ears, listen!

MANY A PROPHET AND GODLY MAN HAS LONGED TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN AND HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD, BUT COULDN’T.

NOW HERE is the explanation of the story I told about the farmer planting grain:

🌴The hard path where some of the seeds fell represents the heart of a person who hears the Good News about the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it; then Satan comes and snatches away the seeds from his heart.

🌴The shallow , rocky soil represents the heart of a man who hears the message and receives it with real joy, but he doesn’t have much depth in his life, and the seeds don’t root very deeply, and after a while when trouble comes, or persecution begins because of his beliefs, his enthusiasm fades, and he drops out.

🌴The ground covered with thistles represents a man who hears the message, but the cares of this life and his longing for money choke out God’s Word, and he does less and less for God.

🌴The good ground represents the heart of a man who listens to the message and understands it and goes out and brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom. “

FOR TO HIM WHO HAS WILL MORE BE GIVEN, AND HE WILL HAVE GREAT PLENTY; BUT FROM HIM WHO HAS NOT, EVEN THE LITTLE HE HAS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY.

That is why I use these illustrations, he said, so people will hear and see but not understand.”

* The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13)