Mark 4:26-29 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;… We little think how much is always going on in what we may call the underground of life; and how much more we have to do with those secret processes which underlie everything, than might, at first sight, appear. We are all casting live seeds. Every word, act, look, goes down into somebody's mind, and lives there. You said something — it was false. You said it lightly. But someone heard it, and it lodged in his mind; it was a seed to him. It found something in that man's mind that was congenial to it; and so it struck a root; it ramified; it fructified. It led on to other thoughts; then it became a word or an action in that man's life; and his word and act did to another heart just what yours did to him. This is the dark side of a grand truth. Now read the bright side. "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed," etc. The sower of this seed is properly the Lord Jesus Christ; but He uses men. The truth in a man's heart propagates — but secretly. We are to believe in the independent power that there is in God's Word to do its own work in a man's heart. There is something kindred between a particular word and some affection or thought in a man's mind before it can take effect. Perhaps the word will incline a man to give up some sin he has previously indulged; may awaken a sense of dissatisfaction with the world; may beget a painful sense of sin. However it be, there will be a great deal passing in the mind which does not meet the eye. Fathers and mothers, who have cast the early seed, you have slept for very sorrow. You see nothing. Wait on. The springing and the growing will be you know not where, and you know not how. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;WEB: He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, |
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