I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Luke 8

Usually when I read the parable of the sower I spend some time worrying about what kind of soil, and, if I write in this blog about it, suggesting that my readers think about themselves in that light.  However, today when I read it I thought about what it means for us sharing God’s word with others.  Now the simple answer would be that we should seek to share the word of God with those who fit into the fertile soil category.  That simple answer is not wrong.  However, the parable implies that the seed gets distributed on all of these soils and that the farmer does not really know whether the soil is fertile ground or shallow ground.  So, while the farmer surely chose how he scattered the seed to minimize how much went on to the path and how much fell among thorns, he realized that, in order to get seed to all of the fertile soil, he had to allow some of it to fall in those locations.  Now comes the important thing, some of that hard soil might have gotten broken up, and someone might come along and pull out the thorns.  Also, we should not assume that we can tell shallow soil from good soil.  So, while we should focus our efforts for spreading God’s word to those who are fertile soil, we should also remember that we cannot necessarily tell which soil is not fertile.