February 8, 2025 Morning Devotional

Morning Devotion: Read Luke - The Parable of the Seed and the Sower

Luke 8:4  And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5  A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6  And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7  And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8  And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 8:11  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

The seed, meaning the word of God is sown all throughout the world.

Some receive it along the wayside unprepared hearts, and the devil takes it from them.

Some receive it in rocky or shallow hearts and when offence or temptation come they fall away.

Some receive it into hearts of thorns or weeds and the care, riches and pleasures of this world choke the word of God and their is no fruit.

Luke 8:15  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Some receive the word of God into good ground, hearts that are ready to be saved and ready to follow the Lord.

Think about the seed and the soil of the heart. The soil, the heart is prepared through plowing breaking and and turning and introducing nutrients and is ready to receive the seed.

God prepares the heart through a multitude of ways of breaking and turning to make your heart ready, the result is called humility.

Psalm 69:32  The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

Psalm 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

James 4:6  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Luke 1:51  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

In Luke 1:51 (A prophecy of Christ at his birth) we find a great truth about the heart. The imaginations of the heart include pride of the hard hearted, the heart “in the way” that allows the devil to remove the seed, God’s word, from the heart.

It includes the shallow heart that through pride for a while receives God’s word but through fear or intimidation or trial cannot handle it and fall away.

It includes the heart that through pride decides the cares and the riches and the pleasures of this world are more important than God and His word.

In all three, they are destroyed by the imaginations of their own hearts.

But, those of the good ground, the prepared and humble heart, are the ones who receive God’s word and bear fruit. They bear spiritual fruit, physical fruit and corporate fruit in their church.

They are the ones who take the precious seed, the Word of God, and grow and become mature in Christ and bear fruit. They are called Christian.

The choice is still yours,

Pastor Cook