How Deep Are Your Roots of Faith?

It is one thing to hear and receive the Word of God, but another thing to let it transform you so that your life is fruitful for the Kingdom of God. Jesus talked about this in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13:3-9 and verses 18-23. Out of the four instances where the seeds fall, the last two contrast being unfruitful with fruitful.

In the first two instances, the seed that falls by the road and on rocky soil fail to take root and grow. The evil one “snatches away” the Word of God (19, NASB), and it “has no firm root (20).” In the last two instances the Word of God takes root, but how deeply rooted it is in the life of the person is determined by its fruit.

How deeply rooted are you in God’s word and His promises? You may resist the evil one’s attempts to dissuade you from following Jesus through doubt, trials, or persecution, but how are you nurturing deep roots? Are you letting the “worry of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful (22).”

And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.” – Matthew 13:8-9, NASB

“The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’” – Matthew 25:20-21, NIV