The Good Soil

But the one who received the seed that fell on the good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. (Mt 13:23)

This is the man I want to be. I don’t want to be the one who lets life’s trials or the cares of the world snatch away what I have in Christ. I marvel that my life is so unproductive. I let timidity and laziness keep me from being obedient to his Word. Lord, transform me from the inside out, by the power of your Holy Spirit. I want to yield a good crop in whatever time I have left.