Let us endeavor to try these simple steps, we owe it to ourselves. Let me share this beautiful story with you, as you ponder may you also see its beauty and share it with others. The garden of the heart.
The simplicity of the story of the “Parable of the Sower,” often goes unnoticed. This story is about our hearts. Here the heart is referred to as soil. It tells of the four conditions of the heart.
The Sower's intention was to sow this world with truth; while he sowed he did so with words, words here liken to seed and seeds the word of God.
The Sower chiefly deals with the effect produced on the growth of the seed, by the soil into which it is cast. By this parable Christ was virtually saying to all who were listening; God knows our heart and we should allow him to help us.
A quick look at one of this type of heart, we see the “wayside soil” heart and the action of the seed as it falls upon the (soil) heart of an inattentive hearer.
"And like the hard-beaten path, trodden down by the feet of men and beasts, this kind of heart becomes a highway for the world's traffic, its pleasures and wrongful actions. Absorbed in selfish aims and indulgences, the soul becomes "hardened through deceitfulness.” The spiritual faculties are paralyzed. Men hear the word, but understand it not, discerning not that it applies to them."
May we be truthful and honest to ourselves, not making excuses for wrong.
(Luke 8:1-15)
(Luke 8:1-15)
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