1355A: Seeds Among Thorns
Weeds. What undesirables they are. They are good for nothing but to be pulled up, burned, or thrown into the trash heaps of life. Not only are they not attractive in themselves, they crush the life out of the plants that are. What are they? Why did God allow them? Where did they come from physically? And what do they say to us, spiritually? That is the topic of this our third look at the parable of the soils. Our study is a beginning look at the third of the four types mentioned in Jesus' amazing illustration of the processes and the purposes of soil conservation. He concluded with, and we begin with, that one statement: "He that has ears to hear, let him hear".