Let's not pray that he will stop plowing. Let's pray that we will accept the plowing process and surrender our lives to the divine Farmer. That's what we need to be doing. This type of soil, mentioned here by Jesus, represents a person who has a hard heart. The seed cannot take root if it is planted on top of a cast iron heart.
Some people live their lives in little cast-iron boxes.
When the seed of the gospel, when the truth lands on such a person, it can't take root. There is no way. They are bounded on the north by their work. They are bounded on the East by their bills. And they are bound on the West by ill health or death.