If you ‘Google’ the Parable of the Sower, you will find a gazillion choices—book, children’s story, meaning, summary, lessons, commentary, and the following from Wikipedia.
The Parable of the Sower (sometimes called the Parable of the Soils) is a parable of Jesus found in the three Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, and Luke 8:4-15.
In the story, a sower sows seed and does so indiscriminately. Some seed falls on the path (wayside) with no soil, some on rocky ground with little soil, and some on soil which contained thorns. In these cases the seed is taken away or fails to produce a crop, but when it falls on good soil it grows, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.
Jesus then (only in the presence of his disciples) explains that the seed represents the Gospel (the sower being anyone who proclaims it), and the various soils represent people's responses to it (the first three representing rejection while the last represents acceptance).
I do not intend to duplicate known interpretations nor expound on the obvious. I’ll focus on the good ground and crop yields that offer spiritual incite and reveal solutions to judgmental relationships Christians encounter.
As we begin our exploration of the ‘good’ ground, keep in mind, all seeds bear fruit. None have wilted, been choked by thorns, nor died. All have produced according to their soil potential and personal responses—thirty, sixty, and some a hundredfold. Christians are not all alike but we are all part of the family of God.
Here is the revelation as God gave it to me.
When we repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and are baptized for the remission of sins, we are born into the Family of God. Like any infant we crawl before we walk. We’re nurtured through church fellowship and the milk of the word. Soon, we transition to meat, grow and mature, and our spiritual life evolves. We serve God, our family, and our church.
This is the typical Christian experience and a thirtyfold yield.
You might ask what is the meaning of the sixty and hundredfold yields? Or say, I like it here. Why would I want more?
We’ll explore this and more in our next blog.
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