Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.
22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit. Matt. 13:7,22
Did you know the first time that thorns are mentioned in the Bible were following the disobedience of Adam in the the garden? Much like Adam's disobedience.....when we stop listening to God to pursue a different path we become subject to the same curse of reaping thorns and thistles. In today's scriptural passage Jesus says that those seeds that fell upon the thorns are people who hear or have heard the WORD but because of the cares of this world, the pleasures, delights, glamour, deceitfulness of riches ultimately suffocates the word making it difficult if not wholly impossible to produce fruit.
APPLICATION: If you are tuning into and trusting into sources that don't speak God's truth, then you can very well be subjected developing opinions and slants toward whichever those media sources provide. I don't care whether it's FOX, MSNBC, NPR, your racist neighbors or family members.....whoever it is....if they are not helping you to LOVE GOD, and LOVE ALL PEOPLE the source is choking and suffocating your ability to be fully effective and fruitful for the KINGDOM, because you will inherently have an issue of contigency towards one people, political, or social group which makes it hard for you to focus on LOVING GOD, and LOVING PEOPLE.
I'm not saying you can't listen to......I'm saying don't allow them to become the authority over the WORD, spend less time fact checking......and more time Studying GOD's WORD, so that at the end of the day.....You've allowed the SEED, the WORD to get deeper into the good soil of your heart. Remember....He simply desires that you LOVE GOD, and LOVE (all) PEOPLE! Have a great weekend!
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