Becoming Seed; Kingdom Character (Matthew 13)

You will listen and listen, yet never understand;
and you will look and look, yet never perceive.
For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts and turn back —and I would cure them.

When we choose to follow our Lord, we transition from being people described in the scripture above.

With the help of the Spirit and through the Word:

we  listen and understand; 

we look and perceive

our hearts become teachable; 

we are eager  for the knowledge of our Lord

Our Lord reveals to us the secrets of the Kingdom as His followers but the kind of root it will take in our lives is up to us.

Listed below is our shallowness or receptiveness.

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. 
This is the one sown along the path.

And the one sown on rocky ground ;— 
this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Now the one sown among the thorns — 
this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the seduction of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

But the one sown on the good ground — 
this is one who hears and understands the word, who does bear fruit and yields: some 100, some 60, some 30 times what was sown.”

I must admit at different stages of this journey in becoming Christ like I have identified with all four.

What should encourage us the most is that the seed our Lord sows into us, when we let Him, He will look after it and nature it and we in turn become the seed He sows.

“The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world; and the good seed — these are the sons of the kingdom.

The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the Devil.

The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

They will throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. Anyone who has ears should listen

What kind of Kingdom are we partakers of?

The secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know.

The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through all of it.

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field; that a man found and reburied.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a large net thrown into the sea. It collected every kind of fish.

As fellow companions and partakers of this Kingdom in our Lord let us learn and adopt.

I would encourage you fellow Christ follower to go and read about this Kingdom for when we know the character of what we are part of, I believe it would be easy for us to walk and live in that character.

Read and think how can I be like that for our Lord is our standard and example.