Up to this point we have seen Jesus heal many and cast out many demons. He has clarified the Sabbath and addressed his critics. Now, finally, Mark records some of Jesus teaching and preaching, which consisted primarily of stories, which biblical scholars call parables.
These stories are typically not allegorical, with a number of “one to one” allusions to something else. Rather they are typically constructed to make one simple (but profound) point. Although today’s story/parable actually gets explained by Jesus in an allegorical fashion, it is still good to ask, "what would Jesus’ one main point be?”.
My take is that those who call this the “parable of the sower” have it exactly right. God just keeps on sowing. He sows everywhere, fertile soil, bad soil, rocky soil, thorny soil. He sows everywhere because everywhere matters. He sows in hope and in love and with eternal optimism and also with omniscient certainty that the seeds will sprout where they will, and the Kingdom of God will, with certainty, eventually “overrun” and renew the planet.
I hope this makes you relax. God is at work everywhere, whether you see it or not, whether you believe it or not, whether, you feel too unworthy or not, whether systems or nations or the all forces of hell oppose Him or not, God is at work and his work and Will will be done.
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