Good Soil

Mark 4:8-9 And other seeds fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty fold and sixty fold and a hundred fold.” And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”


How can we apply this parable? What if anything is our part in living out this parable? I know I need to be good soil. Good soil has been turned, it has been plowed, it is aerated. I need to let myself be worked by the spirit to become open to the seed of truth God wants planted in me. I know the seed is always going to be perfect, but I know at times I have not been in any condition to allow the seed to germinate and root itself. I think I stumbled along for a long time as one of those other options in the parable, but I did not bear fruit. I know the plow was also in God's hands, but in some way I had to allow the soil to be prepared, I needed to be a willing participant in God's hand. Any ability we have to bear fruit with our lives depends on being good soil accepting good seed. Jesus said that those who believe in Him will abide in Him and bear much fruit, fruit that will last. Are we bearing fruit? An important question.