Overheard Overhead

At the stop sign out in the middle of the fields I could hear the buzz of the little engine. It was a unique sound I'm not used to hearing. So I looked up.

This little yellow plane kept swooping down over the field, then heading back up into the clouds to circle back and head over the field again just to turn around and do it all once more.

Then my husband pointed out the big puff of something coming out of the back of the plane and land over the field. Seeds. The seeds were being sown. Of course the farmer who purchased the seeds had every intent and plan for those seeds to all land in the soil, take root, and grow (likely into rice).

However, when a breeze would pick up those seeds could blow over onto the road or in the ditch or into the next field. You know that must deeply concern the farmer, who spent his own money on that seed.

Mark 3:2-8

He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: "Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times."

Mark 3:14-20
The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

The seed is the word that has been sown for everyone. Don't allow Satan to get his grasp on it, don't allow trouble or persecution stand in the way, don't let worries choke it out. Instead hear the word, accept it, and produce fruit. The seed has been sown.