Mark 4:7-9

This is one of the parables where we get descriptions that teach us very well. For those of us who have now been seated in the congregation of our Lord and Savior, who do see the many truths God has revealed to His people, and who Christ is working every day as our High Priest in preparing us to inherit the riches of God's glory, I would say getting caught up in the world and its ways to be the likely concern we must be vigilant about. We can get caught up in worldliness that can keep us from pursuing holiness and remain a separate people unto the Lord.

Jesus stated clearly in Mark 4:19 what can happen. "And the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful." My prayer for each of us is we do listen, that we may see the world's nonsense for what it is, and meet the challenge of being holy and of being morally pure before our Lord. That we would have a willing heart to ask God where we fall short; to ask God and let His changes come. Let His trials and chastisements come to bring us to the point that the Potter desires for each and every one of us.