Hope For The Heart Unknown

In this parable we hear Jesus say the response to the Word of God, the Gospel, depends on the heart. He gives us an example of 4 kinds of soil that represent the kinds of responses we will get to the gospel. Only one response, the good soil, can receive it so that it takes root in the person because God prepares the heart to receive it. This is called a supernatural work of God in the person which causes us to be born again. Also called, regeneration.

I like to name this passage -The Parable of the Soils- because the issue presented is the soils and not the seed or the sower.-The soils represent the human heart and its different responses to the Word of God. In fact, our faith is related to one of the soils which means that only one of the 4 soils represents genuine or real faith. This would explain why some who appear to be believers abandon the faith. -The faith that fizzles before the finish was flawed from the first.-

What is your greatest fear---I can't answer that for you but I can show you a few things in a prayer by Habakkuk. His greatest fear was not his circumstances, which, by the way, were very dark and dreadful. God had just told him his nation was about to go into judgment and He was going to use an evil nation to take them captive.-Yet Habakkuk's greatest fear was that God would be glorified in His purpose and plan for the nation of Israel.-Perhaps we could learn a lesson or two from this mighty prayer by a prophet in the old testament.

Habakkuk wanted to know the same question and realized that God would reveal some things to him but some things were to remain hidden. In fact, there are many things related to God's will that we will not ever understand. Why is there suffering by believers in this world or why do Christians have to get cancer and die-- We might never understand God's ways but we must have faith in Him. You see the object of our faith is Christ -Himself- and not what we would like Him to do for us.

This prophet had basically 2 problems . The first one is that Israel was in sin and had rejected God and the second on is God answered his prayer with a most confusing answer that must have stopped him in his tracks. Did he pray to God with an anticipated answer-- I believe that he prayed with an answer in mind , and was praying for God to fix the things that were wrong with his people the way he wanted it fixed. But of course, God is going to answer according to His good pleasure. Isaiah 55-8-11

This passage ends not only the book of Revelation but the canon of scripture, the Bible. It just seems fitting that a warning is attached which is from Jesus Himself and an invitation for Him to come quickly.