We can spend years listening to truth while our hearts quietly harden, grow shallow, or get tangled in a thousand other things. Even if we show up and check all the boxes, spiritual numbness can still creep in. What we need, again and again, is a heart that’s open, receptive, ready for God’s Word to take root. He doesn’t force His way in. He sows and waits, faithful even in the dry seasons. But the condition of the soil? That’s our part. We must keep it prepared. So what about your heart today? Is it broken and ready, or is there hardness, shallowness, thorns that need to go?

Encounters With Christians
During His earthly ministry, Jesus encountered many people whose lives were changed forever because of Him. But now He has turned this ministry over to us. So exactly what kind of Jesus do people see when they encounter us? Since we are now the only Jesus some will ever meet, are our lives accurate reflections of Him?




