# 324 - Today's Living Word comes from Mr 4:3-4 "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 "And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
Let's get the picture. In this day and age of modern machinery and mega farms, it's hard to identify with the farming methods of Jesus' day. The field having been prepared by the crude cultivating tools, would likely not look the same as a typical field in a Midwest planting season.
Our modern plows dig deep and turn the soil over where it is then further pulverized by other farm machinery and then the seeds are planted by machinery at a precise depth. Good luck getting our seeds today birds!
Not so though in the typical farm of Jesus' day. The farmer would be working a smaller plot of land, with a bag of seed thrown over his shoulder, and as careful as he might be, some of it would miss his prepared soil and land on the hard paths that served as boundary markers between fields.
One can almost picture the birds following the sower and feasting on the seed. We don't read of the sower chasing after the birds to protect his seed. He has plenty, the food for the birds is factored in as part of his overhead. In this parable, we know that this seed represents the Word of God, and a quick lesson for us here is that the Bible, the Word of God, like that bag of seed, is more than sufficient, for a crop of righteousness.
Did you get that? The Bible, the Word of God, is more than sufficient!
I'm Duane Matz and that's Today's Living Word.
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