Jesus Christ: Farmer of the Heart - Matthew 13:1-9

Jesus was teaching his disciples in the house on a certain day, as he often did. Afterwards, he went outside and sat by the seaside or beach. A large number of people, maybe even thousands gathered around him to listen to him teach. And here is what he said, (Matthew 13:4-9):

3...Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scortched; and becasue they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

In the above story, Jesus tells of a farmer who went out throwing seeds indescriminatly onto different kinds of ground, some fell outside the plowed rows onto trails where men walked. Birds ate those seed, as they lay on top of the ground. (verse 4)

Some of the seed fell on rocky places where there was not much fertile soil, and they grew up fast because of the shallowness of the ground below them. When the sun came out, they quickly dried up and died because their roots could not push through the hard ground to find moisture. (verses 5-6)

And some fell into places where thorns grew. When the thorns grown to maturity their roots choked out the good seed, and they too died. (verse 7)

Yet some of the seed fell into fertile, plowed rows where they were intended to be planted, and all of these produced a crop; some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold and some a thirtyfold crop. (verse 8)

When Jesus had finished telling this story to the great crowd he said with a loud voice, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear"! (Matthew 13:9; Luke 8:8)

And I say to you, even as Jesus said to those who were listening to him that day; if you have ears to hear, then hear what the Lord Jesus is saying to you through this story today!

And know that Jesus is still The Farmer of the Heart!