Why Some Get It & Others Don’t

While getting ready to turn in for the evening, the thought came to me, “chokes the word and it becomes unfruitful” Well I knew right away it was a familiar scripture but one that I had not read in quite a while. So I came to my computer and looked it up, “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.  As he scattered it across his field, some of the seed fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate it.  Other seed fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. The seed sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow.  But the plant soon wilted under the hot sun, and since it didn’t have deep roots, it died.  Other seed fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants so they produced no grain.  Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”  Then he said, “Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand…Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables? The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!” Mark 4:3-9 and 13-20 NLT


Another scripture that helps to explain why some get it and others don’t is found in 1Corinthians 3:5,6  “We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us.  I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.” For some they are hearing it for the very first time and it needs watering, just like the newly planted seed before it can grow.

When I receive a message from the Lord or in my husbands case a series of messages at a time,  I am so excited about its truth and power of how it can improve our lives that I want everyone else to “get it” too, because I know that “when” they do, it will change their lives!  But the truth is, everyone is at different levels of listening, hearing and learning.  And then there is the competition of the world just as Jesus mentions above: “The worries in life, the lure of wealth and the desire for other things” Plainly said, things “creep in’ and can literally choke, kill and steal the very life changing word of God from the hearts of  those listening.

As a minister of Jesus Christ I need to be reminded as to why some get it some don’t. I have on occasion witnessed those who began to “get it”, but then something in their lives (troubles, worries, fear etc) distracted them and it seems that everything they’ve been learning just goes out the window.  Our hope as ministers of course is that everyone “gets it” and continues to get it which would be what Jesus describes as the “fertile soil” This is the point in their lives where they guard and protect everything they are learning.  A maturity in their Christian walk to where they recognize distraction, they see the evil that is trying to “steal” the word of God that has been planted in their hearts and they don’t allow anything to take it from them. Just like that seed that has been planted, it needs watering, it needs care and it needs protection from everything that would keep it from taking root and growing up into the plant that produces fruit just as God intended.

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