Wrapping up this parable, I have really been reflecting on growing up on my families farm. I was blessed to have instilled in me a very young age good work ethics. I understand that you get out of, what you put in to. I saw all the hard work that it took to raise cattle, to produce milk for your tables. That was the fruit that was produced as a result of the good soil as in this parable. Christ desires to produce good fruit in you also. But you must work at becoming humble to break the stony ground of pride and self, and allow him to nurture you to an understanding of what He has laid before you. In humility and obedience, you will produce fruit for others to enjoy that Christ has sown in you.
Good Soil
Matthew 13: 8-9 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
My lineage is from a farming family for over a 100 years. I grasp the understanding of soil preparation and yielding a good crop as a result of good work. Your fruit is a direct result of your preparation, nurturing, and God’s provision in the fruits that are produced. In the closing of this parable in Matthew 13, this is where we strive to be the good ground and produce a good crop for our Lord. Verse 23 says, “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” When God’s Word falls on us, a good ground is blessed with understanding, that produces a good crop. That understanding comes by seeking God and application in your life.
Matthew Henry said “that which distinguishes the good ground from the rest was, in one word, fruitfulness. By this true Christians are distinguished from hypocrites.” John15:8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. We are to strive to implement Gods Word into our lives (the soil preparation); He will nurture the soil by the understanding of the Word, and therefore we strive to produce fruit as a product of that understanding. We are to strive for a hundredfold, but whatever fruit may be obtained for His glory, is to the joy of our Lord. Take what He has shows you, apply it to your life, share it with someone whom needs encouraging, and know that you too are producing fruit for your God.
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