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Mark 4:20
"Others, like seed sown on
good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce
a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times
what was sown."
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October 10
Good Soil
In the parable of the soils
Jesus tells of different types of people who
hear the gospel. Only some people hear the
word of God and accept it and will bear fruit as
a result of this.
As a seed reaches maturity
it produces a great harvest in light of what was
invested. One seed does not return one
seed, it returns dozens of tomatoes or years of
apple harvesting.
Bearing fruit takes time
and some of us will take longer to reach
maturity than others. Some Christians go
through years of backsliding after their initial
profession of faith before they get their life
together. Others see a rapid change in
their life.
Christians are going to
have different levels of production. God
has gifted each person differently and we should
expect each Christian to do the same things.
Some people are going to be the equivalent of
the crop that is thirty times what was sown
while others are going to be like the crop that
is sixty or a hundred times what was sown.
We are called to bear
fruit. The amount that is produced depends
on our maturity and how we are gifted. We
have control over our maturity only.
Produce fruit and strive for maturity.
Don't worry about the results. God is
looking for fruit, not the numbers. |
