The Gospel is very picturesque. It depicts the unexpected, the stony and the choking situations of life. For the true Christian, even set back and failure can be good soil, provide we hear, listen and do God's promise in them. The point is whether we receive that promise of God, listen and ponder over it, and let it fructify us. If we effect this promise of God, come what may, there will be a harvest, even a harvest that is hundred-fold.
Christians have no reason to despair.
Christians, however, must allow life to take deep roots in the rich soil that has been given them. Christians must work with the soil given them by the Creator, the Redeemer and the Sanctifier. Hear, listen to and work with the Triune God, then, we sure will succeed in what we were sent to do. Rev. Richard J. Fairchild, B.A., M.Div.