The farmer set out to sow his seed now, when sowing seed it tends to fall where ever the wind takes it. Depending on the condition of a person the word of God can vary where it lands, because God is that farmer who through us spreads his seed. The seed of the word will fall on the path of which anything can hurt it; someone steps on it, a bird can take, etc… Now, more and more people today whose heart is become hard and relentless, we find the seed of the word of God roll off, and on some it seems to grow. In life, there are many situations or individuals that are like thrones of which tend to have a choke on the word of God. Of course, when we prepare our hearts to receive the word of God we become like that good ground which produced a hundredfold of its seed in fruit.
Matthews 13:3-5
3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
Now, the scripture speak concerning the seed that fell along the path and the path can have many avenues. It is becomes a danger to the seed when a person is unstable and always on the go and has many paths. Solomon warns us about having a steadfast way (Prov. 4:26), because the seed can die. Diversion from the path can occur when the seed has not had time to grow (Prov. 21:16). The seed also fell on stony ground when the farmer sowed it, and depending of the things we have gone through in life our hearts can become pretty hard. A heart can be hard for only a period of time, eventually it will break kind of like what happened to Pharaoh (Ex. 14:4). Pharaoh’s heart was hardened until he witnessed the glory of God. It happened the same to Nebuchadnezzar when he felt so high and mighty that he hardened his heart to God and was turned as one of the animals of the field (Dan. 5:20-21).
When a farmer is releasing his seed to the ground there is always a portion of the ground that has thorns. Thorns are always going to be near us and we can not ever separate ourselves from them (Gen. 3:17-18). When Adam fell away from God God promised that for the rest of our lives we will have to deal with thorns, and we see this in Genesis and later on in Isaiah (Is. 7:23). Thorns are a symbol of pain, discomfort and things that choke the benefits of the word of God. The tree that fell on the good ground found the nutrients and benefits it needed to grow and bare fruit and this is in context with creation (Gen. 2:9). God put all the benefits for a seed to grow in good ground, and when our hearts are as good ground.