Sewing Good Crops

 

Matthew 13: 1-9

The Parable of the Sower

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. ² And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. ³ And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ⁶ but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. ⁷ Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸ Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears, let him hear.”

Two approaches to this parable: 1: Jesus is the seed; sometimes he catches attention, but loses to the flashing lights of current fads or even the ignorance of pop culture.  Others profess a faith that has not substance, and soon weary of the way that leads nowhere.  Others are choked by materialism and die before they can take rook...Others bear fruit.

2.The good seed are the self-less, generous uses of the gifts God has given to us.  We spread hope and life by our deeds, and our "crops" flourish.

May we put our seed to good use today.

Bro. Rene