# 347 - Today's Living Word comes from Mr 4:26,27 And He said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.”
Jesus begins speaking still another parable to the crowd. This parable is only found in the gospel of Mark and it continues His theme of sowing the Word of God. This time His emphasis is on the inherent power of the seed.
This seed is the Word of God, and as the earth itself is the God-created place for the life and power of a plant seed to be released, so it is for the heart of man as it relates to the Word of God.
The heart of man has been specifically designed by God as the place where the life and power of His Word is released. Don't bother trying to figure it out. The farmer doesn't. He just plants the seed in the ground and trusts that it will do its thing. A couple of verses come to mind here:
“For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Heb 4:12)
Ro 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
God's Word is powerful!
Sometimes I think that we preachers spend far too much time dissecting the seed, rather than simply sowing it, trusting in its inherent power to accomplish its purpose as determined by God Himself. As the prophet Isaiah wrote in Isa 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
I'm Duane Matz and that's Today's Living Word.
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