Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23
But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away. The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.
But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears
the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or
sixty or thirtyfold."
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How do you respond to the words of God when you encounter it? Do you take time to ponder and reflect upon it even for a short time?
We understand that we are always busy, but we must not let this busyness take us out completely away from God. We must allocate some of our precious time for God no matter how busy we are.
Otherwise we might become walking beings that is totally enslaved by this world. Walking being that is entirely at the mercy of power, riches, flesh and other worldly undertakings that are attractively sugar coated so that it could completely veer us away from God.
Jesus’ wants us to be the rich soil at all times: to hear the word, understand it and live it. This is the reason why He gives us people that will introduce and guide us to God. But some do not even care to listen, some do care to listen but after a while they forget it, some listen and they remember but they forget to practice it in their daily life.
What Jesus wants from us is to hear the world of God,
to reflect upon it and to apply it in our daily lives. By doing so we now
become the seed that was sown on the rich soil which bore fruit and yielded a
hundred or sixty or thirtyfold. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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