The Parable of the Sower ( which one is you ) honest answers only please

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The Parable of the Sower​

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred,sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

This is arguably one of Jesus most powerful parables.

I’ve become the seed which fell in the thorns.

Every single Christian falls into one of the above categories.
 
I’d say I’m in the good soil, though I’ve been slow growing… and still working to get to full maturity.
 
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Same here. With a handful of manure thrown in at intervals.
 
I think the fullest reading is that at some time or another we are all of them also. And as 13:9 is read, we can perhaps be counted in that one also if we recognise the truth. The power of the parable, like all of them, is in recognition. Jesus organizes a framework. Orthodoxy. The trick always is in orthopraxy
 
My story isn’t over yet. I still could be any of these.
 
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