365 Days of Praise Challenge-Day 297

I love, love, love hearing a new perspective on something in the bible. Our pastor spoke about Mark 4: 1-8. It has the well known parable about the 4 soils. Our pastor hit the nail right on the head with this one. I think we have often looked too much at the soils and thought only of ourselves and are we growing and producing fruit or are we without any roots or choked by the weeds of life. But that is a self-thinking perspective. Our pastor gave us a Christ-thinking missional perspective. Jesus is the sower or farmer who is scattering the seeds and he was the best. It was helpful to learn that sowing seeds is not like what we think today where we dig a hole, stick a seed in and cover it up or have a machine do it all. Back in the days, sowing seeds was simply tossing the seeds into the wind and letting them fall where they may. Jesus was the ultimate seed sower but given the 4 types of soil we can see that even with all the constant seed sowing he did both in his life and after he rose from the dead the failure rate was 75% because only those 25% that fell on good soil would grow and produce fruit. Our pastor explained that our failure rate will not be good either but that we have to sow seeds that much more. He used the words recklessly, haphazardly and hilariously. I had to look up these three words just to get a better feel. Reckless: without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action. Haphazardly: random or by mere chance. Hiliariously: merry, cheerful, joyful.  So we are to not think or care about what happens to the seeds. That is God's part. He will take care of the watering of the seeds. We are to do it whenever and wherever keeping our eyes and ears open to hearing and seeing those right moments when we should be sowing the seeds. And we are to do it with cheerfullness and joy in our hearts that we are saved and others can be too if we can just sow the seeds.  Just sow....
Thank you Lord for this great message with a new missional perspective that Jesus would want for us. Just sow... Just sow....
Mark 4: 9 Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."