“Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Matthew 13.8
Jesus’ parable of the sower is prophetic but the promised yield doesn’t happen within the gospel. There Jesus’ teachings fall on path, rocks, and weedy patches where the seeds fail to flourish. The disciples who flee when Jesus is arrested are like the seeds on the path that the birds eat. They vanish. Peter, whose name means Rock, is like the rocky ground where the seeds grow up quickly and gets scorched for lack of soil in which to root. The rich young man of Matthew 19.16-23 is like the seeds sown among thorns. The lure of wealth spoils his yield. Only after his resurrection do Jesus words sown in the lives of his disciples take root and grow.
What has hearing the gospel yielded in your life?