consider carefully how you listen

 Luke 8:1-21

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”

His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’

No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”

Why?

Jesus used parables to teach disciples and people to know what he was preaching.

Does the seed fall on good soil or other places? What is the soil of our heart?

Jesus has given to us the secrets of the kingdom of God, but what we are listening to. We heard if do not carefully listen, it is nonsense to us.

All Christians are sons of the Lord, we are the light of Jesus, does my behavior like the light in this world.

How?

Be the light of Jesus in this world to honor the Holy Name of the Lord!