“Those that were sown on the good soil are the
ones who hear the word and accept it and bear
fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”
Mark 4:20
The whole point of Jesus’ parable is that where the seed is sown, there will be a great harvest. Perhaps you shared the Word of God with someone, and it fell on hard ground. That may not be the end of the story, because we don’t know where God will be ploughing next week.
When the plough comes, the good seed that was sown gets tipped into the opened ground and everything is changed. What a tragedy it would be if God were to open the heart of someone near to us, but we didn’t plant the seed.
The finest seed will not raise a harvest if it is still in the barn. That’s why when you do sow seed, you don’t dump it all in one place. You have to scatter it. Why? Because you don’t know where God was ploughing last week, and you don’t know where God will be ploughing next week.
Jesus said that seed sown on good soil would bring a harvest thirty, sixty, or a hundred times what was sown. Thirty times what was sown would be a bumper crop. Sixty or a hundred times what was sown would be a harvest greater than anyone, at least in Jesus’ day, could imagine.
Jesus is saying: God can do more in your lifetime, through the seed of His Word, than you think. He can do more than you think in the lives of the people around you. When the Word of God gets into the soil of your life, there’s no telling what God will raise up in and through you.
On the last day there will be a great multitude surrounding the throne, living under the blessing of God’s rule. How did these hard-hearted, shallow, choked up people ever get there? God’s people sowed the seed. God’s Spirit ploughed up the ground. And there was a great harvest.
Where do you need to start scattering seed?
