Thoughts From the Bible

Read Luke 8: 4- 10-   Jesus began His parable of sowing seeds and starting to teach the disciples and the people listening about learning from Him. When the disciples asked what the parable meant, Jesus replied in verse 10, ‘And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.”’   Jesus knew the word pictures of parables helped people to better understand His message, but it did require the disciples and the people to see beyond the story and see i ts application to their daily lives. We must do the same thing. In the events and situations in life we experience, we need to see the spiritual application to God’s principles to better ground us in our faith. That means being continually spiritually sensitive . We need continually work to be thinking about how God’s principles apply to what we do every day and then look for ways to share our...

Read M ark 4: 1 0- 15-  Jesus was teaching the disciples about parables. While giving meaning to the parable in verses 1 through 10, some did not understand. Jesus wanted those who chose to believe in Him to be able to  understand the parables so they could apply the meanings to their lives.  Verse 13 through 15 say,  ‘And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?  How then  will you understand the parables? The  sower  sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is   sown; when they hear,  Stan  immediately   comes and takes  away the  word  that is sown in them.”’   We have people in the   world today who chose to readily ignore Jesus  Christ,  and anything associated with Him.  They fight to have Jesus  excluded from society in every way they can.  Jesus is telling us Satan has a firm grip on those individuals and will fight to  maint...