Stay Faithful in the Sowing

“But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” – Matthew 13:23 My encouragement today is to stay faithful in the sowing. We shared these last few days the Parable of the Sower and the diversity of soils we can sow the word of God into. My Great-Grandpa Schuller’s family owned a farm in Iowa, and there was a tornado that destroyed everything. Afterwards, they went into the field and removed every nail, every piece of salvageable lumber and roof tile, and rebuilt everything. Farmers do that. They do not waste anything, and they do not waste time. No one stands around saying, ”Woe is me.” When they look at a field, they don’t say, “I need, need, need.” Instead, they go back to