Bringing Forth Fruit with Patience ~ LORD Help us!
" But that on the good ground, are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience." - Jesus Christ the L ORD , as per Luke 8:15 [KJV] Disciple, tread warily on this good ground. Speak cautiously about it. Lest thy soul be lifted up, and thou shouldest say, I made myself to differ. My nature is better to receive the seed, and my heart more honest and good to retain it, than others. Know thyself by nature upon a level with wayside, stony-ground, and thorny hearers. See what is predicted of these blessed hearers. Examine if we are of the happy number: if so, let us fall down in humility, and cry, What hath God wrought! Let us give all the glory to the God of all grace . ( 1st .) “ That on good ground. ” It is made good by the labour of the husbandman: tilled, cultivated, and made fit to receive the seed, by the grace of the Spirit, in an honest and good heart. No man has such a heart naturally. The he