Unproductive Soil

Have you ever noticed how the soil reacts when ignored? It becomes dry, hard, pale, unproductive… In fact, unmaintained soil often won’t even support the growth of weeds. It doesn’t get much worse than the inability to produce a weed. I’ve spent hours on my knees working bad soil with a hand rake and shovel. With patience and the proper natural additives, a transformation is achievable. Unproductive soil can be given new life.

Our spiritual life requires the same attention as soil. It must be worked and fed regularly, or it will become dry, hard and unproductive. Life events, acting much like a rake and shovel, often break us down allowing room for a fresh dose of God’s Grace to aerate our souls while the living Word of God feeds it. Before long, the unproductive is once again capable of bearing fruit.

“The seed falling on good soil yields a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:23