The Seed
The Word of God
Sown into the sinful human heart
The sower proclaims the Word of God
Christ as Lord
Shares the Gospel message
The hard heart
Unreceptive to the Word
The seed cannot penetrate
The soil of the hardened human heart
Ears hear, but the words are not understood
Soon the evil one will snatch away what was
sown
Dare I say
We all were born with a hard heart
Alive to sin and dead to God
The superficial heart
Soil that looks good at first glance
But lying beneath is a bedrock of stone
Seed is sown and springs up ever so quickly
Soon it will wither and die under the sun’s scorching
heat
Roots cannot grow deep nor penetrate a heart
of stone
A heart preoccupied
Good soil, polluted with weeds and thorns
Rob good seed of nutrients and light needed to
grow
Soon the seed will be choked out, slowly over
time it dies
Just like the cares, worries and riches of
this world
Leave behind an empty shell, with no life, nor
fruit of faith
Lastly, we see the good soil
A heart prepared by God through His Word
The seed of the Gospel is heard and understood
A repentant heart responds
Bearing the fruit of the Spirit
Obedience and faithfully persevering
What is necessary for bad soil?
Nothing, do absolutely nothing!
What about good soil?
God uses His Word to prepare a sinner’s heart
Enables one to hear the Word
Understand it and bear fruit
So, which is it?
The Sovereignty of God?
The responsibility of man?
Yes!
By Susan Wachtel
March 10, 2019
This poem was inspired by a sermon from our
Pastor, Tom Pennington on Matthew 13:1-23 – The Parable of the Sower, and from
the notes that I took.
I would like to encourage you to listen to this
message, Four Soils Part 2. Perhaps you
are concerned about the salvation of a loved one…someone you’ve prayed for. Maybe you are wondering if you are truly
saved? Was there a profession of faith? When you look back do you see fruit? Fruit of repentance? Fruit of the Spirit?
There is absolutely nothing more important
than knowing with absolute assurance that you are saved, forgiven of your sin,
all because of Jesus Christ and His perfect and complete atoning death on the
cross.
This last week, we saw news about celebrities
who died unexpectedly. One was pretty
young. The thing is, none of us knows the
day and hour when we will die. Once we
die, there are no second chances. There
will be no changing our minds. It’s
important that we get it right today.
For today is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:2
That
day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got
into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.
And
He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out
to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds
came and ate them up. Others fell on the
rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang
up, because they had no depth of soil. But
when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they
withered away. Others fell among the
thorns, and the thorns came up and choked them out. And others fell on the good soil and yielded
a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.” Matthew 13:1-9
