
#WordForTodayDevotional
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
HINDRANCES TO ACCESSING THE WORD (3): THE THORNY HEART
And some fell among thorns? and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Matthew 13:7 (KJV)
Some seeds fell among thorns (which are a good guard to the corn when they are in the barn, but a bad inmate when they are in the field). ‘And the thorns sprung up,’ which intimates that they did not appear, or but little, when the corn was sown, but afterwards they proved choking to it, (vs. 7). The thorny heart went further than the former, the wayside heart and the stony heart, for it had root; and it represents the condition of those who do not quite cast off their profession, and yet come short of any saving benefit by it; the good they gain by the word, being insensibly overcome and overborne by the things of the world. Prosperity destroys the Word in the heart, as much as persecution does; and more dangerously, because more silently. The stones spoiled the root, the thorns spoil the fruit. Now what are these choking thorns?
First, They represent the cares of this world. Care for another world (heaven) would quicken the springing of this seed, but care for this world chokes it. Worldly cares are fitly compared to thorns, for they came in with sin, and are a fruit of the curse; they are good in their place to stop a gap, but a man must be well armed that deals much in them (see 2 Sam. 23:6, 7); they are entangling, vexing, scratching, and their end is to be burned, (see Heb. 6:8). These thorns choke the good seed. Note, worldly cares are great hindrances to our profiting by the word of Yahweh, and our proficiency in the faith. They eat up that vigour of soul which should be spent in divine things; divert us from duty, distract us in duty, and do us most mischief of all afterwards; quenching the sparks of good affections, and bursting the cords of good resolutions; those who are careful and cumbered about many things, commonly neglect the one thing needful (see Luke 10:42).
Secondly, They represent the deceitfulness of riches. Those who, by their care and industry, have raised estates, and so the danger that arises from care seems to be over, and they continue hearers of the word, yet are still in a snare (see Jer. 5:4, 5); it is hard for those that are rich to enter into the kingdom of heaven (see Matthew 19:23): they rely upon riches, and take an inordinate complacency in riches; and this chokes the Word as much as care did. Observe, It is not so much riches, as the deceitfulness of riches, that does the mischief: now they cannot be said to be deceitful to us unless we put our confidence in them, and raise our expectations from them, and then it is that they choke the good seed. Selah!
REMEMBER: The thorny heart is choked to death by the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. Today I turn my back eternally to the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: Be delivered today from the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
FURTHER READING:
Isaiah 54:1-17
ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Deuteronomy 1:1-2:37; John 5:31-6:13
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