Reading
SAA Notes
These two parables and the incident with Jesus’ family, contain many challenges for us as we seek to follow and love Him. Can you find some challenge for you here today?
SJA Notes
* Dear God, Your word is what we need for life, it is food for every part of our lives. Please feed us today with the bread of life.
“As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.”
Good soil!
This reminder is so helpful for us.
That we are to hear the word through our daily walk, our personal readings, our group readings, the preaching each week from the pulpit.
That we are to hold God’s word fast in our hearts, chew it over, wrestle with it, store it up in hearts that are to be full of honesty and goodness.
And that we are to bear fruit with patience. No tree bears fruit immediately, but it grows and matures itself as fruit is buds and forms.
Let us be good soil!
* Father God,
Thank You for Your word. Please write it on our hearts, that we would hold it fast there.
Please help us be patient as we seek to bear fruit for Your kingdom.
Amen.