Planting Seeds

by Lynn Berna Monday, March 9, 2026

Is it gardening time again? The Poff Family Market in Southern Indiana showed some appealing seedling pictures.
Now that the season gives signs of spring, it’s time to start some seed plants for the garden.
As they take root and begin to grow, you hope for some days of sunshine. One fertilizes and waters them to nurture that growth which is always a really good thing to see.
For those of us who love Jesus, our neighbors, workplaces, families, and friends are a place to sow spiritual seed and hope it will grow.
Jesus taught many things in parables, stories to teach and illustrate truths. He talked about sowing seeds in one parable.

Looking at parts of The Bible in Mark 4:3-20 (Amplified Bible Classic Edition) it says;
“Behold a sower went out to sow and as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
Other seed of the same kind fell on ground full of rocks, where it had not much soil; and when the sun came up, it was scorched, and because it had not taken root, it withered away. Other seed of the same kind, fell among thorn plants, and the thistles grew and pressed together and utterly choked and suffocated it, and it yielded no grain. And other seed of the same kind fell into good (well-adapted) soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing, and yielded up as much as thirty times as much, and sixty times as much, and even one hundred times as much as had been sown.”

In verse 20 it talks about those “sown on the good (well-adapted) soil who hear The Word and receive and accept and welcome it…”
As you take care and prayer into sowing spiritual seed, sometimes you get to see what was never expected. It is in those days we rejoice when we see The Lord work and He reaps a harvest.