38 Parable of the Sower

Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-20, TBC Book Two, Chapter 38
One day when Jesus had been in a house teaching, the crowd had become so large that the house could not contain them. So the people to follow him toward the lake. Finding a boat to use, he sat down in it while the people stood on shore. Then he told them a story, a parable, about a man sowing seeds.

“The seeds were scattered and some fell along the hardened path. Then the birds came and ate them up. Other seed fell on rocky places where there wasn’t much soil. That seed grew quickly because the soil was so shallow. But when the plants rose above the ground, the sun scorched them, and they died because the roots could not grow. Other seed fell among the weeds, which choked out the plants. But the seed that fell on the good soil produced far more than what was sown.”

Then Jesus said, “Let the one who has ears to hear understand.”

Later, his disciples asked, “Why are you now speaking in parables?

You are concerned that they might not understand?” Jesus smiled. “That’s the whole point. . . .

(See THE BIBLE CLICKS, Book Two, Chapter 38, for the rest of the story.)​

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Today’s Takeaways
     A proverb to guide you: Every life is a garden. What’s growing in yours?
     A promise to cling to: “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.” James 1:22-25  NIV
     A praise to fill you: Tend the Ground  Curtis Stephan     [Can skip ad after first 5 seconds]

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