"The Sower"

Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the... Matthew 13:3-4
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In three of the four Gospels we have an account of the parable of the sower. For most of us this parable becomes about the four different places the seed lands, the wayside, the stones, the thorns and the good ground. Which of course is important because Jesus not only took the time to teach it but to explain it to the disciples in detail.

Today I want to focus on the sower. It says that this sower had seed to sow and he went out with one purpose. To sow his seed. The definition of the word sower in the Strongs is - through the idea of extending; to scatter, i.e.to sow. So here we have a sower out there with a purpose. He wanted to sow his seed for a reason. It wasn't to just get rid of the seed he had in his bag. He wasn't just throwing it out there. It mattered to him. You don't plant seed for no reason. You plant because you want to see the fruit.

Anyone who has scattered seed or anything else knows that as you scatter something it doesn't always land where your aiming. Some might fall from your hand as you taking it from the bag. Some might shoot to far or too close but the most goes where you want it to. As the sower scattered his seed some fell off to the side. Some landed in among some rocks. Some landed in the weeds and thorns. Some hit the mark and landed where he would reap a harvest.

The sower, he had a purpose, to scatter his seed and reap a harvest. He didn't worry about where every little seed landed, he just sowed his seed. Jesus said that the seed was the Word. That makes you and I a sower of seed. Are we faithfully sowing the Word daily in the lives around us. It is our job as the sower to have a purpose. We need to be faithful to sow and to know that we can trust Him with where it lands and to bring in the Harvest!