Sunday Sanity

March 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Believer, Chris Tomlin, Christian, Church, God, Husband, Jack in the Box, Jesus, Mark, Mark 4, Mark 4: 1-20, Non-Believer, Whom Shall I Fear

I didn’t want to go to church today. I have an awful migraine last night and felt horrible. But something was pulling me there. I personally know it was God telling me to get to church but I will be the first to admit I don’t always follow what He wants for me. Of course that leads me to more heartache than anything else.

I am working through a few things currently. I have a long way to go.

This isn’t something I say lightly but I worry about my husband because he isn’t as into being a Christian as I am. And the sad thing is I am not as good of one as I should be! There are things I put in front of God as well. I am personally working on it. My husband though doesn’t see anything wrong with what he does. It saddens me at times.

At church today it was about these verses:

Mark 4: 1-20

The Parable of the Sower

Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. ² He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: ³ “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴ As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵ Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶ But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. ⁸ Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”

⁹ Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

¹⁰ When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. ¹¹ He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables ¹² so that,

“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’^[a]”

¹³ Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? ¹⁴ The farmer sows the word. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. ¹⁷ 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. ¹⁸ Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; ¹⁹ 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. ²⁰ Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

I love the way verse 12 was explained. This is a very confusing verse for a lot of people. They feel that Jesus is saying that He doesn’t want non-believers to understand what is being said. But that isn’t the case at all. He is talking about the fact there are times to sow to non believers but when gathering for worship there needs to be words, learning and depth to the message that only a believer is going to understand.

But what really spoke to me today was this song:

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