Day 18
Today’s passage
Mark 4:3-20
Experience
Many of you may be familiar with this parable. Jesus often taught using stories the people would be familiar with, like farming or fishing. But Jesus always included unique spiritual truths. In this parable, Jesus used imagery of a farmer sowing seeds to describe the conditions of His listeners’ hearts.
In the parable, the “seed” represents the Word of God. The “soil” is how receptive the heart is to receiving and acting on God’s Word. Jesus describes four heart conditions. The first is the soil on the path, which represents a heart beaten down and unreceptive to God’s Truth. The second soil is the rocky soil, which is a heart that initially responds to God’s call, but isn’t developed enough to maintain “roots,” or maturity. The thorny ground is like a heart that wants to have a relationship with Christ, but money, relationships, or other earthly things get in the way of growth. The fourth soil that Jesus talks about is healthy soil, soil that accepts the seeds and bears fruit. That soil is like a heart that is mature and is continually following God’s will.
Which soil best represents the state of your heart?
Do you feel like you can only know Jesus if you’re at a youth retreat or another “mountaintop” experience?
Or are you willing to follow Jesus, but things in your life constantly trip you up?
Watch the video (God Speaks)…and pray that God will soften your heart to accept His Word.
That video was pretty cool i liked it!
i feel i am the second soil (the rocky soil), But im trying to work on being the fourth soil (healthy soli).
This devo really caught my eye becasue latley i have been trying to dig through my life to become closer to god. So i got rid of all the friends or distractions of the first of third soils. So this really helped!
I really liked that video too. I feel like i’m the rocky soil too, i am trying to be the 4th soil, but its hard. I always try, but something like friends or school get in the way….
That is good for you Hannah.
I do agree though. I think i am the third soil, i really don’t thing that really nobody is at a healthy soil because you can always get better with God.
I think i’d be the 2nd soil because i’m young and still learning. I’m not saying if you are young you arent a good christian, im saying younger christians should study the bible so when you get older you can teach the youth to do the same. And when you get to your older years your faith will be very strong.