GOOD GROUND

While recently reading The Parable of the Sower in a comparative way in Matthew 13, Mark 4 and Luke 8, a thought became clear to me about ‘the four soils’ mentioned in the parable:

“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, some seeds fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them. Other seeds fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants soon wilted under the hot sun, and since they didn’t have deep roots, they died. Other seeds fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants. Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
(Matthew 13:3-8)

The four are: Footpath: birds came and took it away.
Shallow Soil: seeds sprouted but hot sun wilted them because they had no depth of soil. Thorns: seeds came up but the thorns choked them out. Fertile Soil: they produced a crop of many times more than the seed.
Maybe the Parable of the Sower is describing the four soils or conditions of us personally as one of the parabolic meanings. We may be one or more of these conditions where the seed (the Word of God, Luke 8:11) tries to penetrate and take hold and often without much success for the very reasons mentioned. Then we also experience the times of Good Ground and the Word sinks deeply within us and produces fruit.
Jesus’ disciples asked, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

“Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.” Jesus