Parables Of Jesus: Parable Of The Sower

In the parable of the sower, Jesus describes how a sower went out to sow seed. Some of the seed fell on a path where birds quickly came to consume it. Some fell on ground that was rocky. Because the soil was not deep there, the seed grew quickly but it just as quickly withered in the sun, as it lacked adequate roots. Still, another seed fell among thorns and was choked. In all three cases, the seed produced no fruit.

This parable should really be entitled “The Parable of the Soil”, because the story, and the truths emphasized therein, do not focus on the one sowing seed. The focus of the story is about the soil. It’s about dirt. In Matthew 13, Jesus taught how the hearts of people can differ regarding openness, or receptiveness, to God's Word. And who knows the hearts of mankind better than the Creator/Carpenter? He has the dirt on all of us!