Mark 4:18-19
And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.
Tag: The World Chokes the Word
The parable of the sower and the seed is one of the most known of all Jesus’ parables. He talked in parables so that those who He wanted to hear the truths would hear them and the simple, the curious, the common man would not latch onto truth they were not ready for, or, more importantly, prepared for, by God (Mark 4:10-12). In the above portion of this parable we have Jesus explanation about the “seeds” (God’s Word) that was sown among the thorns. When good seed starts to grow in the midst of thorns, thorns do what thorns do. The choke out the fruit the seed is supposed to bring forth. So, too, the world cares and the world’s concerns. If we are attempting to have God’s Word grow in our lives but we are planted right in the middle of a thorn patch, we should not expect much fruit in our lives. We can’t read God’s Word for a few minutes a day and then live in the midst of the concerns of the world the other 23 hours and “x” minutes - and expect spiritual growth. The cares of this world and the cares of the reaches and desires of this world will choke us to death. We hear about them all day long in music, entertainment choices, mindless TV choices, pop up ads that appear on our devices, political feeds, social media feeds, etc. The cares of this world have NO restraint. They will simply choke all the work we do with the Word if we don’t find a way to separate from the world. We have to cut the world off and all the Word to come into our lives to change the way we think. If we don’t, we allow the world and their ideas and thoughts to simple choke the truth of the Word.
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