Jesus explains the story about the seeds

Mark 4:13-20

Jesus explained the story in Mark 4:1-9 to his disciples. It was not a difficult story. It was easy to understand.

The seed is like God‘s message. Soil receives all the farmer‘s seeds. And people receive God‘s message. But all the seeds do not fall in the same place. Some places are better than other places. And people are different from each other. Some people obey God if they hear his message. Other people do not obey God.

Some people do not even begin to obey God. They hear God‘s message. But immediately, Satan takes it from them.

Other people like God‘s message. They start to obey it. But soon they change their minds. They decide that it is too difficult to obey God.

Other people try to obey God. But other things seem very important to them. They may think about their troubles. They may think about their money. They may think about other things. But they do not still think about God‘s message. So they cannot obey him.

God sent his message for a purpose. He sent it so that people would obey him. Those people are like the good plants in Jesus‘ story. God will help them to do the things that he wants. Those people will not waste their lives. They will use their lives well, because they will do God‘s work.