Parable: Sower and the Seed

This story is about four very different people and how they accept and react to the word of God. The first person do not hear the word of God at all. A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  The second person do hear the word of God and for a short while he seems to be following his word. But he soon stop listening to the word and lose sight of the Lord. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.  But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. This person heard and grew in the word, but somehow got caught up the world and he too lose sight of God.  Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. The fourth person did not only hear the word, but became a true christain, and doer of the word. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. Pay attention and listen! "Whoever has ears, let them hear."  I don't know about you, but I have been all of the above at one time or another in my life.

Matthew 13:3-9