Saturday, May 5, 2012
Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower (GNB)
(Mark 4:13-20)GNB(GOOD NEWS BIBLE) -- "Then Jesus asked them, 'Don't you understand this parable? How, then, will you ever understand any parable? The sower sows God's message. Some people are like the seeds that fall along the path; as soon as they hear the message, Satan comes and takes it away. Other people are like the seeds that fall on rocky ground. As soon as they hear the message, they receive it gladly. But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once. Other people are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the ones who hear the message, but the worries about this life, the love for riches, and all other kinds of desires crowd in and choke the message, and they don't bear fruit. But other people are like seeds sown in good soil. They hear the message, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred'."
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I think about this parable often. I consider the first type of person to be the intellectually seduced. This is the overthinker like myself who gets distracted by reasonable philosophies. The second kind are shallow people, though they are also cowardly. I don't think I'm much like that. The third kind of person is especially lethal, because if they live in a wealthy country like this one it is extremely difficult to see ourselves. I am constantly fighting that. Of course all conscientious Christians strive for the fourth kind of person which we only partially succeed at. That is, the fruit are the nine virtues: love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, patience, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We seem only to improve upon some of these virtues and very defectively, huh.
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