SEEDS AND SOILS - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Wednesday, October 14, 2015
by RBC Ministries

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SEEDS AND SOILS

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Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
-2 Peter 3:18

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Isaiah 43-44
1 Thessalonians 2

If you like growing pumpkins you have probably heard of Dill's Atlantic Giant variety of premium pumpkin seeds. Developed on a family farm in Atlantic Canada, the pumpkins grown from these seeds have set records around the world. In 2011, a pumpkin grown in Quebec set a new world record at 1,818.5 pounds(825kg). That size of pumpkin could yield almost 1,000 pieces of pie!
When news reporters asked how this pumpkin could grow to such size, the farmer replied that it had to do with the soil. The seeds were of a special large variety, but the soil still had to be right or the pumpkin wouldn't grow properly.
The Lord Jesus used an illustration in which he compared different types of ground to a person's response to God's word (Matthew 13). Some seeds were eaten by birds, others started to grow but were choked by the weeds and some grew up instantly but had no soil to further their growth. But the seed that fell on the good soil "yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty"(v.8).
Each of us need to ask, "What kind of soil am I?. The Lord wants to plant his Word in our hearts so we can grow in our knowledge of Him. - Brent Hackett, RBC Canada Director.
More about Jesus let me learn,
More of His holy will discern;
Spirit of God, my teacher be,
Showing the things of Christ to me. - Hewitt

The fruit of the Spirit grows in the soil of obedience.

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