HEAL - God's Heart for Healing in LukeSample

Producing A Great Crop

Jesus often taught about the principles of God’s Kingdom by using parables; that is describing a concept by using an analogy to something everyone could understand. Everyone in His audience could understand how a seed is planted in the ground and what can happen after the planting. He used four scenarios. When planting seed, sometimes:

1. Seed falls by the wayside and is trampled,
2. Seed falls among the rocks and without water, will dry up,
3. Seed falls among thorns and weeds and gets choked out, and
4. Seed falls in good soil and yields a hundred-fold.

He’s talking about the “seed” of His Word, of course. He’s teaching us that to actually see a harvest of good fruit when we hear His Words, we must make sure the Word lands in category 4, good soil, and not categories 1) fall by the wayside, 2) among hardness with no water, or 3) allowed to be swallowed up by weeds. 

While studying and learning His Word, we must be careful to protect the precious seeds He deposits in our spirit. In other words, plant them deeply in our souls, take care to water them and pull the weeds (negatives thoughts and lies) from among them often. Then, expect a harvest of a hundred-fold!

QUESTIONS:

1. Am I expecting a hundred-fold harvest from the things I’m learning in His Word?
2. Am I being a good “farmer” with the precious seeds?
3. Can I identify some rocks or weeds that need to be discarded from my soil?