{"id":559,"date":"2009-08-28T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:29:01","slug":"good-ground-seen-by-luke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Good Ground Seen By Luke 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse for our last meditation on the Parable of the Sower from Luke 8. I encourage you to go back and make a copy of all the meditations of the Parable of the Sower and muse on them from time to time. They are powerful. Today let us look at Luke 8:8,15. I find our Lord gives us a\u00a0great reminder in verse 8 when He cried unto them <em>&#8216;He that hath ears to hear, let him hear<\/em>.&#8217; The word &#8216;<em>cried<\/em>&#8216; means to address someone with a loud articulate noise. This statement can not be over stated. We cannot come to God unless He first gives us the spiritual ears of the heart to hear Him speak. I bless the day He gave me ears to hear Him. The good ground has ears to hear. Do you have ears to hear? Jesus tells us in Luke 8:15 that the good ground will produce an <em>honest and good heart<\/em>. The word honest means beautiful, valuable, and virtuous. The word good means well. This is a heart that only God can create within us. So we find the good ground will produce the fruit of a testimony outward to man. A honest and good heart with a testimony upward to God. <em>By the way, what kind of ground are you<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse for our last meditation on the Parable of the Sower from Luke 8. I encourage you to go back and make a copy of all the meditations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}