A farmer went out to scatter seed. As he was scattering seed, some fell on the path, and birds came and ate it. Whenever people hear the word about the kingdom and don’t understand it, the evil one comes and carries off what was planted in their hearts. This is the seed that was sown on the path. Matthew 13: 3-4, 19 

When my parents traveled abroad, my mother used to bring seedlings from that country back home to her property.  She wanted to grow things that were new to her property, plants that might never have grown here in the US before. 

In a spiritual sense, this is what happens when Christ, the great Sower, sows heaven’s seeds on earth. These seeds are powerful and high reproductive. There is no guess work whether they will take root or not.  Jesus said that if they are planted in the right kind of soil, they willbear fruit.  .

The Bible is full of unseen life. The words on the page may look powerless, but then again, you can’t always tell what you’re looking at.  A handful of seeds don’t look powerful either but when you plant them, oh, they turn into something quite different.  A seed becomes the tallest of trees.

Why kind of seeds do you need to plant?   In at atmosphere of hostility, plant peace seeds.  If there is a church split, plant unity seeds.  If disillusioned and hopeless, plant faith seeds.  The Word, when planted, culminates in the effects God promises.  

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.  Isaiah 55:10-11