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Are Your Planted Seeds Producing Fruit or Weeds?!
This is an excerpt from my prayer journal that I wrote on the weekend:
Dear God,
I just love it when you teach me something from your word! Today I read in Mark 4:13-20 about the farmer sowing seeds, and for the first time it really resonated with me.
Verse 18 says: “the seed that fell among the thorns represents those to hear God’s word, but all to quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced.”
All my life I have assumed that I was the last ‘seed’ in the story, the one that represents those who hear your word and produce fruit. But now I am questioning that. Am I really producing fruit? Or am I fooling myself? What desires do I have for “other things” that crowd out the message in my life? How can I eliminate them?
Do any of you girls have things in your life that are crowding out God’s message and hindering you from producing fruit? This passage has really got me questioning my day-to-day priorities. How many people have I led to Christ? How many times have people missed out on hearing the Good News because I have been lazy? My desire is to be the last seed in the story, the one that bears fruit. Let’s take a good, honest look at ourselves this week and figure out what seed we represent in this story. I’d love to hear what things are crowding out the message in your life and what you are doing to overcome them.
Michelle
