Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 4 verses 1 through 9:
Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. 2He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. 6And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. 7Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’ 9And he said, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’
The sower is at peace. He has cast his seed left and right. He has seen the sun, and waited on the rains. He knows the stalks will grow in some places, but for a while. The heat will be too much without deep groundedness.
Some of the seed will be taken by birds to feed their young. But even some of those seeds will fall and find their place. You should never bet against the seed, so long as it's still around.
Other seed will be choked out by everything else that is out there. And there is so much out there. So many cares, and concerns, and worries -- a lot legitimate, though much not.
Nevertheless, the sower is at peace. The seed has been cast. It will find where it needs to go. It will grow.
It is growing.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist in Fort Worth, Texas.
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