Mark 4:13 And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. Mark 4:15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. Mark 4:16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with gladness; Mark 4:17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they stumble. Mark 4:18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, Mark 4:19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. Mark 4:20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” We get excited when we see growth, we should. We praise those when they show us signs on the outside that they are growing, this is also good. Yet, the only way we can tell if the root in them has been established properly is either by drought or by storm, then you know that the root is firmly fixed in place and able to handle the wait of the fruit that will grow upon it.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:27:20 +0000
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