While the parable of the sower is one of the most popular parables that Jesus told, to a farmer the parable has to sound crazy. Jesus tells the story of a farmer who takes very expensive seed and goes out and plants it everywhere, even though he knows most of it will never bear any fruit. If we were telling this story in today’s language, we would talk about a farmer planting everywhere—trying to plant on parking lots and in deserts. What kind of a farmer would do such a thing?
The parable shows us a God who even though he knows where seed will grow, he loves us enough to plant it anywhere. For people who are committed to carrying out God’s mission on earth, this has significant implications for us. This means that it is not for us to try to determine where to sow, but rather that we must take God’s word everywhere! The great mystery of this parable is that when we sow everywhere, some of the ground that we thought would be the least fertile will wind up bearing the most fruit!
It is not our job to be soil testers. It is our job to sow everywhere. Have you written someone off as unfertile soil? Be faithful to sow there, and you may be amazed at what God will grow.
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