What Kind of Ground Are You?
Jesus spoke many things in parables (v.3). He spoke in parables in order to hide His wisdom from the multitudes and so that only His disciples could understand the “mysteries of the kingdom” (v.10-11). First, He told the multitude the parable of the seed and the sower (v.3-8). Later (v.18-23), He explained to His disciples alone the meaning of the parable. God’s truth is “spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
See All...). That means that it must be understood by a spiritual mind that is taught by His Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10-13 [10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
[11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
[12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
[13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
See All...). Those who do not have the indwelling Spirit are not given to understand the spiritual things of God. They can memorize verses and learn the details of the stories, but the greater truths of scripture are hidden from them.
In order to know the things of God, you must know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. In the parable of the sower, the sowing of the seed is the preaching of the word of God (v.18-19). As it is preached, it falls on four kinds of ground: the wayside where it is devoured by birds, on stony ground where it cannot take root, among thorns where it is choked before it grows very much and on good ground where it grows and bears much fruit.
Have you allowed the seed to take root in your heart? Have you trusted in Jesus Christ (who died for your sins on the cross and arose from the dead to give you eternal life) as your personal Saviour? If so, are you bearing fruit for Him? What fruit is the seed of the word bearing in your heart?