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“These are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful” (Mark 4:18-19).
The Lord Jesus explained things in parables to the people, and here we find a man sowing grain. It fell on different kinds of soil, and some fell on ground where thorns grew. The thorns are compared to the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches. But notice that the cares of this world are mentioned first. Why is this?
It is because the cares of this world are necessary, to some extent, in our lives. We need to go to school, we need to learn how to earn our living, and later, when we grow up, we need to work to support ourselves. All this is good, but we must be careful not to allow these necessary duties to overtake our lives to the point where no time is left for the Lord.
Often, Satan uses the cares of this world to keep people from coming to Christ to be saved, but he can use those same cares to make us unfruitful as Christians too. We need to be on guard for this.
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