“Walk the walk...talk ain't necessary” ~ George Akomas Jr.
NUMBERS 5, 6
God gives Moses further instructions: Purity, Restitution of wrongs, Test for an unfaithful wife and the Nazarite. Chapter 6 ends with the priestly blessing.
22The Lord said to Moses, 23“Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
MARK 4:1-20
Jesus begins to teach but the crowds are so large that he has to get into a boat to keep from being overwhelmed. He then tells them the parable of the Farmer and the seed. After, the 12 Disciples fail to understand the meaning.
13Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14The farmer sows the word. 15Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”
JOURNAL
Jesus is trying to tell the disciples that people will fail and most often, no matter how great the understanding mentally, people will fail to apply truth to their life. They will fail because they do not accept it and allow it to change them and begin to produce a crop by taking action and doing.
17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. (James 2:17)
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