“Hear this! A sower went out to sow." (Mark 4: 3).
Today's Gospel presents us with one of the most important and consequential parables of Jesus. Consequential because it can be life transforming if we get the message. The question is: Does the life, Good News of Jesus Christ mean anything to you? Do you believe there is a life after death? Where are you on the Journey of Faith to the Next Life?
The Sower sows the seed. "Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain." (Mark 4: 7).
The seed is the word of God. The Master Sower is Jesus Christ. Today pastors, evangelists, missionaries and spirit-filled Christians are sowers of the seed.
Consider those seeds that fell among thorns:
"Those sown among thorns are another sort. They are the people who hear the word, but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit." (Mark 4: 18 - 19).
Do you know anybody with excessive anxiety about family, health, money, job, tools and possessions, food and the future? Could that person be you? The Lord Jesus says that ADL or Anxieties of Daily Living will "intrude and choke the word." And you will bear no fruit. In other words, you will be barren.
"Almighty ever-living God,
direct our actions according to your good pleasure, that in the name of your beloved Son we may abound in good works.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." (Collect Wednesday, 3rd Week in Ordinary Time).
