“The RoseBouquet”

Jesus explains the parable of the sower’s seeds and how they grew. The four scenarios He had described in telling the little story were now compared to the four basic types of responses that people will have when they hear the good news of the gospel of Christ.

There are those who hear it, but do not understand. Perhaps with time they might, but Satan comes (like the birds) and snatches it away. It didn’t touch them because their hearts were hardened.

There are those who do hear it, but their lives and hearts are rocky with troubles and bad situations. Although they respond gladly, they haven’t got the focus or concentration to let the truth take root. As soon as calamity comes into their lives, (it tend to rain thick on them). they no longer remember the good news they heard.

There are those who hear the gospel truth, believe it, and want to live as believers, but the busyness of their lives, and their efforts to make a living or get some wealth just keeps them too distracted, and what little they know of spiritual things becomes an ineffective little routine. Maybe attending church on Sundays, even going through motions of Bible-reading and prayer, but they do not experience the power to transform and enrich that comes when grounded in the Word, and in Christ.

Happily there are those who hear the good news of the gospel, and who receive it gladly. They absorb it, and study the Bible to learn more. They live out what they learn, and have a living, breathing relationship with Christ. Their lives show and bear fruit for Him.

Like any good farmer of any era, the sower would like to see more and only the latter type of results. So does God as the ultimate Sower, but He faces the facts. Some seed isn’t going to fall on fertile, productive hearts. Sow anyway.

PRAYER: LORD, I need to emulate You and Your attitudes as I try to scatter the gospel seeds. Not all of it will be productive, but I am to keep hoping for plenty to fall on the good, fertile hearts. Above all I can see that I need to keep sowing - all the time!

+++++Jesus is my King+++++Jesus is my King+++++

Blessings on you Today!
Ruth Marlene Friesen

P.S. Muriel’s older sister Cathy has gone to a party with plans to elope from there. But their mother is dying and wants to talk to Cathy. What is there to do but find her and bring her back - even against her will. How do you suppose Ruthe handled that? Find out by reading, Ruthe’s Secret Roses. Available in e-Book edition Softcover edition.