Among Thorns

An explanation of seed that fell among thorns (See Feb 10 devo)

The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

There’s a reason why we are to read his word daily.  There’s a very good reason.

Daily life is hard, and sometimes we get thrown curve ball after curve ball, and some of those balls hit us square in the head and knock us flat.  This leaves a big bruise.  And we’re quite afraid to stand up and play anymore.

Then comes along an encouraging word that says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” only we’re afraid.  We cannot stand on our own.  And that fear overtakes us, that word never becomes a reality, and we stay on the bench while the rest of our team plays and scores, and wins the game.

This world, if we allow the worries and deceit of it to rule our minds, will choke out any good words that we hear. 

Jesus doesn’t want hard knocks to bruise us and wound us until we can no longer hit a home run.  He wants to give us peace, love, and joy, even when we’re hit hard.  

And the sooner we understand that, the sooner we will stand back up and catch the next curve ball instead of letting it knock us silly.