Sow the Seed

Good Morning,

Luke 8:4-8 (NIV)
While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.
"When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

I'm sure that most of us...if not ALL of us...understand what Jesus is saying here about His "seed" and what can happen after it has been sown. The challenge is that many of us are too concerned about exactly where sown seed comes to rest and not concerned enough in simply being obedient by sowing that seed.

Jesus TOLD us that not all of His seed...the Good News of Jesus Christ and God's plan of salvation...would land on good soil and then grown and prosper. Jesus was very clear that some of the seed that we are to sow would simply land on pretty much deaf ears and the "birds of the air" would eat it up, having never germinated in any way. He told us that some of the seed would sort of germinate, but never grow because it had no basis in which to set down roots. And He told us that some more of the seed would begin to grow, but fail to mature because of the "thorns, which grew up with it" talking of those in the world who would rather see death than to see life. And, thankfully, He went on to say that some of that sown seed would germinate, grow, and mature and, therefore, yield marvelous crops for God.

We've been told these things over and over, yet we allow the "failure" of some of the seed we sow to influence us when it comes to sowing God's seed. We see the Gospel message being totally ignored or not landing where it can do some real good, and we think, "Well, why should I bother with all this effort when nobody cares about Jesus?" Yes, it is, truly, sometimes an effort to go out and spread the Gospel. And, yes, sometimes it seems so futile to do it. The world is sometimes overwhelming in it's discard of the Good News. But, we must always remember that there can be...and IS...that chance that one of those seeds we sow might land on the next great saint in the world. We have no way to know.

What we must also remember is that it isn't US who are responsible to see where God's seen lands. It isn't US who have the burden of watering the seed we sow. And, it isn't US who are likely to see the crops that might grow up and thus, "yield a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." We aren't the ones, necessarily, who have that function. What we are responsible for is the sowing of the seed. That's what we've got to remember. That's what we've got to be faithful to. That's what we will be held accountable for.

Just the sowing.

Let's not fail in what we've been commanded to do by God. Simply tell the world of the Gospel message. Then, let God take care of the rest.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David