According to the living Bible, the Lord is saying to the children of Judah and Jerusalem, plow up the hardness of your heart's, otherwise the good seed will be wasted amongst the thorns, cleans your minds and 💓 hearts not just your body...,(Jer 4:3-4). This is @PASTOR001 again in conjunction with the Holly Spirit bringing this wonderful and a must read aticle, read it and be bless.
The word "fallow ground" as found in our text, is an agricultural word which means that the ground has been left for a very long period of time without any agricultural activity taking place on it, such fallowed ground is always characterized by the presence of stubborn roots, stones, trees, stubborn grasses and manure, just as it is in the heart of a man.
No good farmer will ever sow his seed on such fallowed ground, without first of all carrying out effective agricultural activities which must involve, tilling, stumping and cultivation, that is preparing the ground for maximum productivity of the seed sown . In the same vein our hearts must be prepared, if the word of God sown in our hearts must yield a profitable increase.
Many has backslidden because their hearts was not prepared at first, just like king Reho boam in (2 chron 12:14). The Bible says he did not prepared his heart to seek the Lord. Since the entrance of sin into the world, the heart of man has been hard and has evil thought and imaginations, in (Genesis 6:5) the Bible says, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Look at how the heart of man is, so dirty.
And so there comes the need for any one who wants to serve God to make up his mind, prepare his heart as God has given us freedom of choice. ( Joshua 24:15). And it says, and if seems evil for you to serve the Lord, Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the God's which your father's served that were on the other side of the river or the gods of the Amorites in who's land you dwell. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Like Joshua you too have a choice to make on whom to serve, since the death of Jesus Christ, a sustaining and sufficient grace has been release to man to run the race ( Room 5:20) , (Titus 2:11). But faillure to make the right choice in preparing your heart to serve God, makes you frustrate the grace of God in your life.
What then are the dangers of untilled, unprepared heart ? Let s consider this deeply as we look at the back of (Lk 8:4-9 & 11-15). About the sawer.
The word of God will fall by the corner, that is the way side of your heart, the hard part where the seed fell represent the hard heart of those who he are the word of God but the devil came and still the word away and prevent people from believing and being saved.
The word of God will fall on your Stony heart. The Stony ground represent those who enjoy listening to someone's message, but some how the message never get through to them and doesn't take root and grow. They know the message is true and sort for believe for a while, but when the hot winds of persecution blows the lose interest.
The word of God will fall on the thorns of your heart. This set of people did not till and stump their fallow ground before planting and so, the thorns were still there. Wealth and riches in themselves are not bad, according to ( 3Jn vs 2 & psm 35:27). But once your heart has been set on them, they can become that kills the word of God in your life (1Tim 6:7-10 & 17, Math 13:22). These thorns can kill the word of God planted in your heart and thereby making it unable to bring fruit unto perfection, that is maturity.
The benefit of a prepared heart:. One of the characteristics of a fallowed ground is the presence of manure, that is a soil rich and good for planting, but this can only be utilized after the ground has been prepared.
The word of God will fall on a good ground:. As no ground can be good for planting if the famer did not make it so, so also no heart can be honest and good if the individual had not make it so (Zech7:8-12)... You cannot serve God well if you did not prepared your heart to do so. This is @PASTOR001 ones again I just want to share a spiritual common sense for your better tomorrow, God bless you for reading this my aticle, but don't forget to.
Thank you for reading and doing just that.
