Hard Soil

Mark 4 God, the great sower, spreads his word upon my heart daily, but sometimes his truth doesn't make any difference in my life because it lands on hardness in my heart. The tragedy is not just that God's word can't do its work if it can't burrow down. The deeper grief is that I miss the bumper crop of fruit He intended to produce through me. "Today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts." (Ps 95: 7,8; Hebrews 3:7,8)