Where are you Sowing Seed?

Mark 4:1-8, The Parable of the Sower

4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while ¹  the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake. 4:2 He taught them many things in parables, ²  and in his teaching said to them: 4:3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow. ³  4:4 And as he sowed, some seed ⁴  fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ⁵  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ⁶  4:6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, ⁷  it withered. 4:7 Other seed fell among the thorns, ⁸  and they grew up and choked it, ⁹  and it did not produce grain. 4:8 But ¹⁰  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

This is one of my favorite group of verses in the Bible.  The law of sowing and reaping is a universal one but one that is often misunderstood.  Its simplicity might be where the confusion lies.  We reap what we sow.  Sounds easy but it can be slightly more complex. 

This applies to not only money but all the things God has for us.  Do you want to prosper?  Money is just the tip of the iceberg that you can experience through God.  I don't know about you but I want 100 times what I sow.  But how you ask?  Sow your seed on good soil.  Mentor young people, spend time with others, work at your church.  Give generously and without reservation. 

The Word is the seed.  When it gets ahold of your heart, the roots go so deep that they can never be lost.  Commit to God, sow seed and God will prosper you in areas you cannot imagine.  God Bless!