If you have spent enough time in the Goldfields, especially if you have friends or family here or if you are part of our farming community, you would know that the maize planting season has begun.
Farmers are seizing this opportunity to sow their seeds, ensuring a fruitful harvest. This situation brings to mind the parable shared and explained by Jesus in Mark 4. He tells the story of a farmer sowing seeds, which fall on four different types of soil, leading to four distinct outcomes.
For a successful harvest, three key components are crucial: a sower, seed, and soil. All three are essential. Similarly, in our lives, we need these components to bear fruit that glorifies God.
In this parable, the seed represents the Word of God. The question arises: Who is sowing God’s Word into your life, and equally important, what is the condition of your heart – the soil?
Is God’s Word falling on a wayside heart, trampled by negative experiences, where the enemy quickly snatches it away? Is it landing on stony ground, lacking depth, where change lasts only for a moment?
Is it landing on a heart filled with weeds – worries, deceptions, and desires for other things – choking God’s work in your life? Or is it landing on good soil, ready to bear lasting and permanent change?
- As we approach the year’s end, let it be a season of sowing, and may your heart be prepared for the truth. May you have good sowers in your life – those who speak truth and encouragement to you. Above all, may the Lord come to break the hardened areas of your heart with His great love.Heinrich Lourens is a zone pastor of the CRC in Wekom.
