Sowing Seed

I am not sure if I have heard this before and just didn’t realize the impact this should have on me till now or if this was something new the other morning.  Anyway, I  was reading the Parable of the Sower in Luke 8:4-15 and my focus was changed.  Usually when I read this or hear it preached the focus is on the lost and those we are trying to reach.  There is nothing wrong with this.  It is important to know where you are sowing your Spiritual seed.  Though I think it is also important to scatter seed wide.  This man is a farmer and probably had been all his life.  Yet he still spread the seed wide over a mixture of terrain.  If you don’t scatter liberally, how are you going to find the fertile ground?  

But the other morning my focus was not on the lost.  It was on myself.  I found myself asking, “what type of ground am I?”  Am I the one who heard, but the devil came and took the Word away so I would not believe?  Am I the one who received the Word with joy but has no firm root so that I will fall away in time of temptation?  Am I the one heard, but was choked by worries and riches and pleasures and so ‘bring no fruit to maturity?’  Or am I the one who heard and holds it fast so that I ‘bear fruit with perseverance?’  

Go read the passage for yourself.  Then ask yourself these questions.  It is not wrong to focus on the lost, but we were all in that group at one point in our past (or maybe you still are).  If you are a Christian, consider where you came from, consider what you are now, and take an honest look at what kind of ground you are and the fruit you are bearing.