Tues.’s Devo - The Sower and the Seed

Read Luke 8:4-15 When Jesus taught the people, he always taught in parables so that only those who truly wanted to understand would have to ask God what it meant. He would end the parable with “he that has ears to hear, let him hear.” Jesus was teaching kingdom principles that he didn’t want to be understood by the devil and his kingdom or they would use God’s tactics for their cause. Today’s parable was about the sower and the seed. He talked about seed being scattered in different places: the way side which was stepped on and eaten by the birds, the rock where it died for lack of moisture, among thorns where it got choked out, and the good ground where it was able to bear much fruit. Out of all the people that listened, only his disciples asked him to explain it to them. He explained to them that they were given the ability to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but the others were not suppose to understand them. The multitudes came to Jesus, but he was only looking for a remnant…a bride. This doesn’t make sense in our evangelistic minds but Jesus knows the hearts of men. Jesus came to seek and save those who were lost by dying on a cross. He chose 12 men who he poured into and taught them how to do the things he did. When he left they were to spread his teachings and his power throughout the world. When the disciples asked Jesus to explain the parable he told them that the seed was the Word of God which was heard by different people. Some of these people had the word stolen from them by the devil, others, had no spiritual roots to keep the Word so they lost it to temptation, others are so distracted with life that they didn’t produce fruit. But there was a small group of people that had good hearts that were hungry, able to hear the word and hold it. These were the ones who would bring forth one hundred fold return. Lord, may we be the ones whose hearts were ready to receive the Word and produce fruit to perfection.