Today's post is my last in this series that looked at Mark 4:1-20. Today we will look at the last the soil, the soil that we all want to be. Jesus describes this soil as the "good soil."
To be the good soil you must be receptive to what God wants you to do. This is the person that accepts God's Word and puts their wants and desires on the back burner. I'm sure that last sentence is something that most of us struggle with. If you're like me, its very difficult to put what you want aside and put what God wants in its place.
To be the Good Soil, you must do the following 3 things with the Word of God:
1. You must hear it. This means you must be still and listen to what God is trying to tell you (Psalm 1 and 46:10). I'm sure you must thinking that I have no idea of how busy you are and for you to slow down any is hard to do. If you truly want to know what God is saying to you then slow down and listen. And for someone of you it might not be you need to slow down, it may be that you need to stop talking (James 1:19). Some of us have a talking problem, we like to talk but not listen.
2. You must receive it. Whenever a foreign body threatens to enter the eye, they eye automatically closes. Sometimes we are like this with the Word of God. We do not like what God is telling us so we close our hearts to it and do our own thing.
3. We must put it into action. As followers of Christ we are called to tell people about Christ (John 1:40-45 and Matthew 28:18-20). It does us no good at all to have the greatest gift in the world and yet keep it to our self. As followers of Christ we must to people about the love of Christ.
So, what do you need to do to be the Good Soil? Pray this week that you become this soil.
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
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