THE STORY OF JESUS: Luke 8:11-15
“The good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart.” (Luke 8:15)
The Lord is always speaking to us, trying to get our attention.
Through people, through circumstances, through our conscience…
Through nature, through Scripture, through our experiences…
Every day His message is impressing on us our need for God.
What do we do with that message?
Reject it, ignore it, passively affirm it, aggressively embrace it?
So many pressures and forces work to hinder us from hearing.
What keeps you from aggressively embracing God’s message?
What excuses do I make for not taking God more seriously?
People who pay attention to Jesus and respond to Him are changed.
They live better, think better, choose better and feel better.
A good crop (life) is produced!
Do you hear the Lord calling, warning, comforting, challenging, forgiving you?
What are you doing with it, and what is it producing in you?
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, I know You are speaking to me, but am I listening? Is Your message impacting me, changing me, helping me? I want to be good soil!
Listening.
How good am I at hearing the Word of the Lord?
To listen means to do.
God speaks to all but we all produce different kind of fruit. The harvest varies.
Listen to the Voice saying, this is the way. Walk in it. The Spirit at work leading and guiding for those who have an open heart desiring to hear more, learn more, understand more, living according to that Word.
Help me to understand Your will for my life Lord and give me the understanding to do it. Living for Jesus in all I do and say.
Living for Jesus a life that is true,
Striving to please Him in all that I do;
Yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free,
This is the pathway of blessing for me.
O Jesus, Lord and Savior,
I give myself to Thee,
For Thou, in Thy [redemption],*
Didst give Thyself for me;
I own no other Master,
My heart shall be Thy throne,
My life I give, henceforth to live,
O Christ, for Thee alone.