Direct Answer
God sows on every kind of heart because any hearer can change. His wide sowing shows love for humanity and real hope for people who look hopeless today.
Support from the Message
- Chrysostom says a farmer would rightly be blamed for sowing on bad ground, since a rock cannot become soil. With rational beings it is completely different. - He says a person who is a rock can change and become rich soil, and a trampled pathway can become a fruitful field. - He adds that if transformation were impossible, the sower would never have sown. - When change does not happen, he places the fault with those who refuse to change and calls the sower blameless. - He says the sower "showed such love for humanity."
Discussion Follow-up
Whom have you quietly written off as hard ground? How would Chrysostom's view change the way you pray for that person and speak to them?