The Good Ground


Luke 8:11-15

This is a parable I have heard many times; however, as I read Jesus’ explanation of this parable it really stuck out to me that we need to persevere, and let our hearts be the good soil, which receives, retains, and produces good fruit from the word of God. It can be so easy to simply set aside a half hour in the morning, pray, read a passage, and then go on about the day without really meditating on what was read. I know that while I am here in Guatemala I have an amazing opportunity to set aside almost every distraction and just get to know my heavenly Father. I want everything I think say and do here and for the rest of my life to reflect Him wholly and completely. I don’t want to just go through the motions as I have for so much of my life. I want a deeper relationship with my Father. This verse is very timely for me, I was sharing in the girl’s bible study yesterday on Psalms chapter 1 and as I was sharing I just kept going back to getting in God’s word. How do we resist the devil? With the scriptures. How do we grow in our relationship with God? By reading his word. How do we produce His fruit in our lives? By meditating on His words. These questions and more kept leading me back to how much I need to get into my bible. I have grown up in church and so I have found out that I know a lot more of the bible than I thought I did. It has been really cool to read it for myself and I have already learned so much but I want more.
So my application is to be more diligent in my devotional time in the morning as I have slacked off. I will specifically set aside half an hour each day this week, and hopefully the weeks to come, to read at least one chapter in the book i’m going through. I will find one thing to meditate on that day to focus, continually think about and ponder all day long.

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