Our disposition for the Word of God is a good indication of our relationship with the Lord. Today’s gospel (Mt 13: 1-23) is an invitation to review and renew our attitude to the word of God. The Parable of the Sower likens the teaching of God’s word to the sowing of seeds. The seeds fall on different types of soil, the pathway soil, the rocky soil, the thorny soil, and the good soil. The Parable focuses more on how it is received.
Each of these types of soil is said to represent a certain type of heart with which hearers receive the word of God. The question each of us must ask ourselves today is, “What type of soil for the word of God do I represent? Am I like the pathway where the seed cannot even sprout, or like the rocky ground where the seed sprouts but has no roots, or like thorny ground where the word of God is choked to death by worldly cares, or like the good soil that bears much fruit?
Every day we should ask ourselves: What have I done today to spread the seeds of the Gospel?
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