Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”
(Mark 4.8 NRSV)

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"For what was sown on good soil," Jesus told the disciples, is like the person who hears the word and understands it, "who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."

A farmer using the methods Jesus described in this parable would normally expect a yield anywhere from seven and a half to ten. Jesus spoke of a tremendous harvest in spite of the fact that some seed was lost along the way. This is to say that we might not ever know the fruit we are bearing. The seed we sow may seem so tiny, but at harvest time the yield will be fantastic--beyond our expectation.

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Dear God, thank you for blessing the seed I sow. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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