Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The Good Seed


Luke 8:11“The seed is the word of God.” 

One of my favorite parables is the “Sower”. In it the Lord Jesus explains about the condition of our human heart in hearing the Word of God, authentic belief and truly transformed conversion. One commentator states that the Word of God is pictured by many beautiful symbols in the Scriptures, and perhaps one of the most meaningful is that of the seed, sown in the field of the world by the great Sower, the Lord Jesus Christ. The first reference to seed sowing in the Bible is in the story of Isaac, who “sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him” - Genesis 26:12.

He makes the connection that Isaac himself was the “seed” of God’s promise to Abraham, and he was a precursive fulfillment of the ultimate promised “seed, which is Christ” - Galatians 3:16. Isaac’s sowing of literal seed in the land of the Philistines is thus a type of Christ’s sowing of spiritual seed throughout the world. As Isaac’s sowing brought forth a hundredfold, so the beautiful parable of the sower indicates that at least some of the seed “fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bore fruit a hundredfold”. 

Although not all seed will come to fruition, it must be broadcast and sown throughout the world. Some of the seed will bear fruit, for God has said “that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be . . . it shall not return unto me void” – Isaiah 55:10-11. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever” – 1 Peter 1:23.

 

Matthew 13:37-38 “He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom”.

The first of Christ’s parables is this parable of the Sower. The second, complementing the first, indicates that the seed is not only God’s Word, but also God’s children—those regenerated through the Word. Thus, we also become sowers of the Word, witnessing to the world and bearing good fruit in His name. 

Amen

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