A Huge Crop

13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.” Mark 4:13-20 NIV

I've pondered this parable many times over the years and to be quite honest, it kinda depressed me.

I always saw myself as thorny soil at best.
Not producing much. Distracted.

I mean I've tried to be produce, but not much yield.

Then the Lord showed me what is the most important lesson of the parable.
It's really quite simple, but very profound.

(Sometimes the Lord just has to spell it out for me. I don't get it on my own.)

Here it is.

I get to choose the kind of soil I am.

How could I have missed that? ... and for 30 years.
I mean really, it's right there!

When I hear the word and accept it and produce a crop, I am good soil.

So how do I produce a crop.
That's simple also; I ask for it.

Keep reading the the rest of Mark chapter 4.

It's all there...

Don't you think the Lord Jesus Christ wants us all to be good soil and produce huge crops?

Do you think He's Ok with any of us being fruitless?

35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

It is my quest to first be a 30 fold... then 60... then 100... then.........
I've asked. He will honor.

And you?.....