Parable of the Sower - What kinds of soil are you?

Date: Sunday 13th March 2005
By: Ghee Seng Teo

Bible verses: Matthew 13:3-23

The parable speaks of the condition of our hearts which could be one of the four at a particular moment of our life when responding to God's words.

• Along the path - with God's words with contempt
  
• Shallow Soil - understand God's in a self-beneficial way
  
• Thorny Soil - unwilling to denial self
  
• Good Soil - understand and accept God's words as they are

God's desire is that our heart should be of the Good Soil. We can go from any types of those soils to a Good Soil when we are willing:

If you are Along the path: you need to take heeds and treat God's words seriously. Do not along the words come in from the left ear and and leaves from the right ear.

If you are Shallow Soil: you need to persevere when troubles and persecutions come for the difference between you and the Good Soil is that, the Good Soil just lasted a bit longer. You need to endure your sufferring by fixing your eyes and hope on the Lord and also to grow in the truth.

If you are Thorny Soil: where your source of troubles came from within. The worries of this life and deceutfulness of wealth choked us of any spiritual growth. It is like wireframed on a tree stem, the tree will never grow beyond certain size. But the Lord taught us not to worry about what to eat (good foods), what to wear (brand names), not to store up treasures (finances) in this world. (Matthew 6:19-34). Let us have our hope on Him.

If you are Good Soil: be sure to grow in multiplicity, 100 folds, 60 folds, 30 folds. For a seed has to die before it can grow abundantly.