Sowing Seeds

Mark 4

14 The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. 15 The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. 16 The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. 17 But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. 18 The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, 19 but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. 20 And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

There is so much to glean from this passage. My thoughts include:

*Now, ‘splain that whole once saved, always saved things again to me? Cause it just isn’t taught by Jesus in this passage, now is it?

*Christians are the farmer…it is our job to sow the seeds of God’s Word. Period. We are not the Lord of the Harvest, we are the sowers of seeds.

*We need to pay attention to God’s Word and not let satan get to us, not let our daily life’s problems get to us, not let the worries of this life or the lure of wealth get to us. We need to stay in God’s Word daily and let it do it’s work in us!