“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 ‭4‬:‭20‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Jesus often taught lessons by using parables, or short story illustrations. In this parable Jesus compares our hearts to soil and God’s Word to seed. He said there are different soils where seed can fall. Or there are different types of hearts that God’s word can come to. There is the soil on the path, hard and stony, as soon as seed falls on it birds come and eat it. It never takes root, or the enemy, Satan steals it away. There’s the soil in the rocky places where the seed falls. The word is received, but doesn’t take root. The soil in the thorny places where the word falls, but it is choked out by the cares of the world and desires for other things. That seed never produces fruit. Then there’s the good soil that is very productive.

The question is what kind of soil is your heart? How do you receive the word of God? In my life, my heart has often been the soil of the the thorny place. I’ve often let the cares of the world and desires to do things my way choke out what God wanted to have grow inside of me.

May our prayers be for our hearts to be good soil. Always receiving His Word, and letting it grow producing all the good God desires in our lives. That kind of soil only comes when we give our hearts to God entirely, totally, and completely!