Post by gitpikker58 on Apr 21, 2007 13:10:47 GMT -5
Wednesday night at Church was an eye opener for me. The pastor's wife taught on what she understood the parable of the sower of seed meant. There could have been no one else in the building because it seems she was talking directly to me. This woman described what I've been trying to tell my wife and other women who are trying to communicate to their men, be direct, simple, and state exactly what you want. Hints, clues, roundabout banter, doesn't work when you're trying to get your man to understand something, we want it defined so we can find a solution or understand it completely, and that's the way the teacher was talking about her understanding.
The Scripture was about the sower of seed, the rocky, thorny, sandy, ground, the road, etc, and I THOUGHT I had completely understood it as to mean when we teach the Word to others we can expect that there are those that accept it and it quickly goes away, or it takes root, etc. But what she was saying that made the most sense was that the 'ground' was in us, our heart, and that the things that choke out or kill the seed is satan attacking us to remove the seed before it takes root, or kill it when it's still in the young tender age.
Those of you that go to Church on a regular basis, do you find that when you leave either the sermon was forgotten immediately or that there is something that sidetracks you from keeping the Word from staying. It seemed that since my family has started back to Church there has been more turmoil in our family especially after any Church service especially when we want to discuss the sermon, teachings, the Word, or any aspect of worship. That teaching Wednesday made absolute sense for the first time to me. When we got home I really wanted to converse with my wife about finally 'getting it', BUT as soon as we got home there were fights with the kids, the wife and I got into it, the phone kept ringing, interruptions one after another, proving the point that satan didn't want that seed to take root.
Finally after the household settled down I was telling my wife that we needed to watch when satan wanted to keep us from letting the Word take root. I know I got it, understood it, don't know if wife gets it yet, but I feel if I get it and hang onto it until it becomes part of who I am then the devil has to go somewhere else.
Now then, when we think of seed we think of corn or wheat or some other quickly grown seed that sprouts up and produces pretty quick. If a seed doesn't take it's ok because there are so many that one or two won't be missed. But the seed I'm looking at as a great example of what we get from the Word is like an acorn, the seed of an oak tree. If the acorn is dropped on the ground it is supposed to sprout, take root, and eventually become a huge strong tree after many years. BUT the devil (squirrell) will take that seed and hide it, eat it, destroy it any way he can so that it will never become a tree. Once it becomes a tree then the squirrell no longer will try to carry it, hide it, or eat it, and will go on to find another seed.
The Word is the same way, when we hear the Word it is the seed that is dropped to the ground of our heart, we hear it and try to get it to start a root. But satan grabs it through sidetracking, turmoil, sin, tribulation, any means possible to keep it from taking root. We have to protect the Word by staying IN the Word, and staying IN the Word is like planting a huge crop so that as long as we keep IN the Word there will always be seed, and the protection of having so much seed is that some will take root to become something great and mighty that the enemy cannot steal, kill, or destroy.
Take a stronghold, put on the full armor of God so that no weapon formed against you will prosper.
God bless, g.
The Scripture was about the sower of seed, the rocky, thorny, sandy, ground, the road, etc, and I THOUGHT I had completely understood it as to mean when we teach the Word to others we can expect that there are those that accept it and it quickly goes away, or it takes root, etc. But what she was saying that made the most sense was that the 'ground' was in us, our heart, and that the things that choke out or kill the seed is satan attacking us to remove the seed before it takes root, or kill it when it's still in the young tender age.
Those of you that go to Church on a regular basis, do you find that when you leave either the sermon was forgotten immediately or that there is something that sidetracks you from keeping the Word from staying. It seemed that since my family has started back to Church there has been more turmoil in our family especially after any Church service especially when we want to discuss the sermon, teachings, the Word, or any aspect of worship. That teaching Wednesday made absolute sense for the first time to me. When we got home I really wanted to converse with my wife about finally 'getting it', BUT as soon as we got home there were fights with the kids, the wife and I got into it, the phone kept ringing, interruptions one after another, proving the point that satan didn't want that seed to take root.
Finally after the household settled down I was telling my wife that we needed to watch when satan wanted to keep us from letting the Word take root. I know I got it, understood it, don't know if wife gets it yet, but I feel if I get it and hang onto it until it becomes part of who I am then the devil has to go somewhere else.
Now then, when we think of seed we think of corn or wheat or some other quickly grown seed that sprouts up and produces pretty quick. If a seed doesn't take it's ok because there are so many that one or two won't be missed. But the seed I'm looking at as a great example of what we get from the Word is like an acorn, the seed of an oak tree. If the acorn is dropped on the ground it is supposed to sprout, take root, and eventually become a huge strong tree after many years. BUT the devil (squirrell) will take that seed and hide it, eat it, destroy it any way he can so that it will never become a tree. Once it becomes a tree then the squirrell no longer will try to carry it, hide it, or eat it, and will go on to find another seed.
The Word is the same way, when we hear the Word it is the seed that is dropped to the ground of our heart, we hear it and try to get it to start a root. But satan grabs it through sidetracking, turmoil, sin, tribulation, any means possible to keep it from taking root. We have to protect the Word by staying IN the Word, and staying IN the Word is like planting a huge crop so that as long as we keep IN the Word there will always be seed, and the protection of having so much seed is that some will take root to become something great and mighty that the enemy cannot steal, kill, or destroy.
Take a stronghold, put on the full armor of God so that no weapon formed against you will prosper.
God bless, g.
