PARABLE OF THE SOWER
There is encouragment hidden in this story: that most people are part of the seed that falls on good soil and yields many times over. I say this because any sower, or farmer, wouldn’t be out there broadcasting seed to the wind willy-nilly but would, of course, be making some effort to have it fall where it should, on the good soil. Any seed falling on rocky soil or among weeds would be because of unwanted and unavoidable accidents, representing just a small percentage of the mass of seed distributed. May we carry over the analogy to believe that God has so arranged things that the most of us “land” in circumstances conducive to our spiritual growth and fruitfulness?
