Every week, the minister Michel Genton, comments for you, a saying new.
Logia is a term applied to collections of sayings credited to Jesus. The Greek word "logia" means "oracles, divine responses, utterances, or sayings.
Tuesday May 13th, 2008
Saying 9
Jesus said,
"Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure"
Everything is seed. You are a seed. That said God is a seed. What you make is a seed. What you also say is a seed. All this produces an effect, a fruit (a good crop) .
Thus choose good things to be sowed and not with vain or harmful things.
Choose to sow where it is going to give some fruit. Be careful, be informed.
Now, what said God, is a seed. And you are the ground(soil). What ground (soil)are you at the moment?
There are four sorts of soil:
1 ° The birds which peck, are the small details of the everyday life which prevent God's word from producing a good crop in you. You so like your small problems, they value you, give you the illusion to live. Do not let the small birds devour what in you should produce fruit (a good crop) and good future.
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2° Do not be too hard to you, nor to the others. When God's Word will come on you It will find you hard and cannot produce fruit. Certain holy things will enter you, but will not find enough good ground and cannot take root in you. .
3° Do not leave the reasonings printed by incredulity of the existence, lose you. Thorns are opposite in what God's Word wants to find in you. In you, It needs the quite simple faith of a child and not stifling reasonings of the theology or sterile philosophies..
4° The good ground it is a well prepared heart. A heart ploughed well by the existence. The suffering is a compulsory passage. Your life is a seed, I said higher. Well, if your life is not sowed itself she cannot die. And a seed which does not die cannot produce fruit.
Now, it is possible that you are not ready to welcome God's seed. The time will take care to prepare your ground. A ploughman is going to pass and will prepare your ground so that it receives God's good seed.
It is damage that the human beings want to know nothing, except that through the suffering …
A ground can change in a short time. We see certain stones surfacing in fields. They rise alone. The farmer just has then to remove them.
The advice which Jesus gives here is given to be lived. The way of living this text is to agree to give up wanting to produce a bitter fruit ( a good crop)and to get ready to receive God's word which, once sowed in you will produce a pleasant fruit, (who can be approved by you, by God and by the others)..