Hosanna Restoration Church

Here begins the message of the planting of the seeds. It is a great story and most have heard it and know about the birds stealing seeds, plants with shallow roots in rocky soil, plants that the weeds choke out and then the ones that land on good soil and produce a harvest. Jesus later explains that these are examples of the way different people hear the Word of God and how they respond to what is planted.

I believe that if we are honest, we all recognize that we each have different kinds of soil with which we receive the word at different times. Some times we are rocky and the Word just falls and lies on top of our hardness. Other times we say a big amen and maybe even take a note, but alas, we forget where we put that note. Other times it grows up in us and we even start walking in this truth because it stirs us so, but then we have a lot to do, and there is not enough time for everything and it gets squeezed back into that place with the other things we have meant to keep working on. And of course we all have some things we have continued in and they prove the Word of God true by always producing a harvest.

Well, I believe God gave me an idea as I read this the other day. The idea was saving the seeds. After all, the seeds are all good. They will all grow and they will all produce a harvest, so why not do something so that not a seed is lost in my life. So how do I go about this Lord? Like everything else, we do it with God’s help.

What makes us rocky? Sometimes it is because we started the day in bad mood and do not seem to be able to get out of it. Other times we are rocky because we do not necessarily like the messenger, the person next to us, what someone did to us, or maybe because the particular Word is exactly what we need but we don’t want it. When this happens, we need to fight the birds for the seed. Take note, stick the devotion in our Bible, or what ever we have to do in order at least keep the seed till we can get it planted when we are better soil.

The same is true when we hear a word and feel a big amen on the inside of us. We jot down the note and are determined to go with it. When we find it withering, we need transplant it and keep it with us. Ask God to take you back to that amen place and water that plant a bit. It does not need to die just because it withers.

What about those plants that grow up and are doing well and then suddenly we can hardly find them for the weeds and thorns and cares of the world. We just need to check the garden a little more often and when we see the weeds go after them. After all, it was pretty good soil when they were growing. Once we have dug up the weeds, we have a good place to plant the seeds we saved from the birds. This is also a good place to transplant those plants that almost withered. Once we have a good plot like this going, we always have good place to put the seeds. Just think of the harvest we’ll have!