HEAR AND ACCEPT

Mark 4:20 NLT And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

I have a Camellia bush which used to flower like this picture but it’s now looking very poorly and has no flowers. The cause is probably the soil being poor and I need to move it or feed it! 

In the same way, the soil of our lives is very important and Jesus told us how to produce a good harvest and what prevents it. None of us would like to be thought of as stony, thorny or poor soil so there are times when we need to do a soil check!😊

He gives us the secret to having good soil in our lives when He tells us they are the people with believing hearts who hear and accept God’s word, who want to produce a good harvest by obeying it. The key is not just hearing, because we can all do that, but it’s in the accepting what He says by doing it!😊

Sometimes we find ourselves standing in poor soil when we’re depressed or discouraged because we forgot to hear and accept what God has said about us, or to us. We’ve listened to the wrong voice or become distracted with other things which fill our lives with thorns and thistles that choke His word!

When that happens we have to make a decision once again to listen, to really hear what God is saying in His word and accept it; not argue with it, reason it out, find out everyone else’s viewpoint, or phone a friend!

No, we’re told to simply hear His word and accept it - end of!

So next time we hear something, let’s check it against God’s word and if it contradicts it, then dig it up and accept and believe what God says instead. If we do that Jesus said we will receive a rich harvest, and remember to keep digging up the weeds of doubt and distraction as we go along.😊 Amen.