The word of God has been compared to a seed. If we exercise faith, even if we can do no more than desire to believe, the seed can be planted in our souls.

"THE SEED IS THE WORD OF GOD" SERMON BY REV. DR. OGILBY. Share full article. April 10, 1876. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

The seed is the Word of God (verse 14), and the ground is our hearts (verse 15). Our hearts were created by God to bring forth fruit when His Word is planted in them.

So many times what we see, or our feelings, gets in the way of what God is directing us to do. In the 13th chapter of Matthew, we find the parable of the sower. In this parable we find that some ...

God’s Word is active and alive, but it is also a “two-edged sword” by which it judges what really lies in the human heart (Hebrews 4:12). And that is just what Jesus does in this parable. He ...

The passage only obliquely emphasizes how great and grand the kingdom of God will become. In fact, the mustard seed does grow, “It springs up and becomes the largest of plants” (Mk 4:32).