Parable of the sower

I really like the parable of the sower found in Luke chapter 8 because it cleverly showshow different people receive and apply the word of God to their lives. When I read this parable I can just imagine all the people who are sat in church listening to the sermon and then go back into their weekly routine where one of the four example in the parable happen to them. Most examples in the parable don’t apply the word properly and so life gets in the way and word does not flourish. Here is the firstexample;1.The Wayside-Luke 5:8 ‘A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds ate it up.’Luke 5:12 ‘Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.’I know there are many people whose hearts resemble the wayside. It makes me think of all the people who attend church for many years, mostly for tradition, yet they are not Christians. As for the people I know like this I didn’t even know that for allthose years they weren’t Christians until they tell me that they just got saved.