We’re coming to the end of the month and to the last days of reading Matthew 13. For me, it has been an unexpectedly rich month. I have seen and felt more in Matthew 13 than in other chapters in other months. I praise God for that. I am grateful for that.
One of the things that has stood out to me, that has affected me is Matthew 13:23.
“As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”
What made the good soil good? And what does it mean to understand the word? I want to grasp such things. The good soil is the only soil that bore fruit. One soil is fruitful. The other THREE are not. These are God’s words. This is what He is telling us. It’s a lesson, a warning, and an insight.
Here’s a bit of what I think this means. The seed only fully grew in a certain kind of soil. That one soil was receptive and it was fertile. I think someone who loves God, seeks Him, feels a longing for Him and feels a joy in Him, who is quick to pray, who finds pleasure in reading, studying Scripture, and finds obeying God wise and right and enjoyable is the soil that receptive, fertile, and fruitful.
This is hard stuff. Most everything in our human nature does not lean this way.
This doesn’t happen by will power or natural giftedness. It happens by a miracle of God softening our hearts.
Pray for that. Join me in praying for that.
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