Good Ground

 “But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”” Matthew 13:8-9 NKJV

The parable of the good sower and his good seeds in relation with the different kinds of ground, including wayside, stony, thorny, and good ground, depicts the responsibility of man to the faithfulness of God. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” suggests that the responsiveness of the heart is the responsibility of the hearer. In our social media world, the dynamics of the hearer’s responsibility has grown astronomically. Everyone now has the compounded responsibility of managing the responsiveness of his heart to the activities of both good sower and bad sower, needless to mention the heart’s responsibility to the good seeds of the good sower, if adopted. For example, when Dinah took an unguarded excursion to see the daughters of the land of Shechem, and got defiled in the process, the irresponsibility of the entire family got exposed…until Jacob responded to the call for the entire family to return back to Bethel for heart treatment. Everyday offers every believer an opportunity to present the heart before the altar for the good ground treatment; his productivity and life fulfilment on the sown good seeds depend on this responsibility.