A word, be it spoken or written, always has something to do with person who speaks or writes. There is power and inspiration in a human word and through it we feel contact with a living person. The same can be said of the word of God. As the great Hebrew poet Isaiah says, it never returns “void” but always fertile. The power of God’s word is like the force of seed, which makes us hope for fruit and harvest.
 
Today’s Scripture readings tell us about God’s word, what can and should happen to it when it is spoken to human beings, to you and to me. Various kinds of people hear God’s word, but the harvest ( the results of that living contact through his word) are not the same in all people.
 
 “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path,  and birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and chocked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirty-fold. Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
 
Where do you classify yourself? “The seed is the word of God. Christ is the sower.  All who come to him have life forever.”
 
“Thank you, Jesus, for sowing your word into my heart. Help me to nurture it so that I can become more like you.”