Matthew 13...

Matthew 13...

I have a friend who seems proud that he doesn’t go to church or “need” that kind of stuff...he knows it all and does what he pleases...and he does know a lot and shares it..

As I read through Matthew 13 this am, he came to mind...and I don’t pretend to know who God has chosen or not....that is for God only...and I do not even pretend to be a Biblical scholar.

There are just some who refuse to hear or listen to God’s call or warnings...and they go blithely through life unheeding of his Word...and there  are grave consequences to that attitude.

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.” 

The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15 For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

Matthew 13:1-15

I want to be numbered with the group who heeds, who hears, who understands, who searches and finds the riches of God’s word. That good seed that prospers... but, also to give it out and be a part of sowing in whatever capacity He see fits to give me...thank YOU....