Good Dirt

I know this girl. I'll call her Wanda. I have seen her at some of the church things I am involved in. She gets really into worship. She cries. She gets worked up. She falls down and repents. Its a beautiful thing.

One morning following one of these displays a pastor friend of mine said, "I heard Wanda got saved last night at your service."

I said, "Just wait till next month. She'll get saved again then, too!"

I see this pattern. She comes. She gets emotional. She leaves. But that's it. Nothing else happens. Where is the life change? Where is the Christ moving in and transforming?


Dr Homer Larsen (the bomb daddy of my strain of Lutheran belief) says "A changed heart is a changed life!" WORD!

Jesus tells us a story of a harvest in Matthew Chapter 13--

"What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn't put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds. Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.

"Are you listening to this? Really listening?"

"The seed cast in the gravel—this is the person who hears and instantly responds with enthusiasm. But there is no soil of character, and so when the emotions wear off and some difficulty arrives, there is nothing to show for it. "



Friends, we can get all rapped up in the music and the display and get born again and again and again and again. But that's not what this is about.


"The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams."


This is about making your heart a place for God to plant and grow and reap a bountiful harvets. Don't be average dirt... don't let the crop wither. Be good dirt. Do great things with Jesus!