Not a Bed of Roses

Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. (Mark 4:3-8, KJV, emphasis added)

The seed that fell on "good" ground, fell on ground that was fertile and tended. Someone pulled the weeds, put a fence around it to keep out the wild animals...

...and made sure it got some natural fertilizer every year.

I guess preaching the Gospel can sometimes be a stinky business.

Posted on Dec 11, 2007 at 2:52:35 AM EST.