Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
December 12, 1994
Luke 8:5: We hear of the birds eating the seed, but skip over the fact that it was also trodden down... Also tending to be overlooked , eclipsed, is the fact that, in this parable, the one common item is the Word. The reception varies greatly, but it is the Word of God that never varies. Here we have the seed, and the seed has life within itself, capable of producing reproductions of itself. It is not, as some think their concepts of it that matter. It is not the boiled down principles that produce life. It is not that the person receiving it imparts to it a living character upon obeying it. Itself is life giving. Nobody denies that the depth or warmth of reception makes a difference, but that simply confesses that people have varying degrees of preparation for whatever reason. The Word of God is alive! Itself! It will produce the life of God in any receptive heart.
How self flattering and puff-headed some Christians are to deny the Word of God while claiming that their own intellectual gymnastics are the good stuff! The old is better. Faith is believing God, and He has spoken in human speech.
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