Deepertruth: Planting The Good Seed The Good Soil

Planting The Good Seed The Good Soil “When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another journeying to him (Jesus), he spoke in a parable. A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up” (Luke 8:4-5).

This is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ as the sower of the seed. It is the Lord who is planting the seed so that all mankind might be saved.

Unfortunately for this group, the seed of faith does not grow.

They are carried away by every kind of strange teaching and are taken away to another master.

These are people who had heard the word of God but because of the many lures of the world, they easily fall into sin. “Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture” (Luke 8:6).

This group heard the word of God but does not have a foundation. They simply wither and die because their faith was not planted on fertile ground.

Psalms 1:1-3 says, “Happy those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, Nor go the way of sinners, nor sit in company with scoffers. Rather, the law of the Lord is their joy; God’s law they study day and night. They are like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever they do prospers”.