The Sower and the Seeds

“Listen to this! Behold the sower went out to sow...” Mark 4:3

In Jesus’ parable, when the sower went out to sow, the seeds fell on all sorts of soil. Some fell on rocky ground, some among thorns, and some fell on rich soil.

Sometimes when we’ve made a mistake, or even a multitude of mistakes, our hearts can be very rich soil which the Lord can use to plant seeds. But only if we realize it and move on. Humility is good fertilizer. Sometimes we are too full of ourselves, too busy to listen to the Lord, too full of anxiety, and trying to solve all our problems, that the seeds God plants are tossed here and there in the wind, finding no place in our hearts. 

Sometimes the seeds are strangled by thorns, when the world conspires to bring about confusion or deception. The good news is God has an abundance of good seed. Even if He has planted many that did not find rich soil in our hearts, every day that we come to Him, sit at His feet, He generously sows more. There is no condemnation in God. We will only find love and generosity.