Matthew 13:8 · World English Bible
Matthew 13:8 Meaning Others Fell on Good Soil
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
What does Matthew 13:8 mean?
When the mind is made ready, love does not merely survive in it; it multiplies far beyond what was given. The good ground is not a better person but a mind that has stopped defending its hardness and lets the truth sink in.
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When the mind is made ready, love does not merely survive in it; it multiplies far beyond what was given. The good ground is not a better person but a mind that has stopped defending its hardness and lets the truth sink in. Nothing is added to the seed; the whole increase comes from the welcome it meets.
The varied yield is not a ranking of worth but a measure of how fully each mind has consented to be changed. What returns is always more than what arrived, because love shared does not divide but grows through everything the mind looks upon.
Good ground: the mind made receptive, no longer guarding its hardness but willing to let love take root and increase Fruit: what a changed mind gives back to the world, the love that multiplies once it has been truly received
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Live Matthew 13:8 today
- Spend five minutes somewhere plain, the car before you go in, the kitchen before anyone wakes, and do not defend anything. No arguing with yourself, no explaining. Just let the quiet in.
- The next time someone tells you something true about yourself that you would rather not hear, say thank you and leave it alone for a day. See what grows.
- Give one small piece of kindness away today with no return, hold the elevator, let the car merge, answer the message you have been avoiding. Watch how it keeps going after you.
Where am I still guarding ground that could be growing something?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 11
The usefulness of a bowl is in its emptiness. What is open holds; what is already full gives nothing.
Zen
An open hand receives everything, a closed fist nothing. The change is not in what is offered but in the hand.
Sufism · Rumi
What is poured in grows larger in a soft heart. Love does not shrink when it is given away. It spreads as far as there is room for it.
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