Sexagesima

Roughly sixty days before Easter, we come to church to hear the parable of “The Sower & The Seed.” Christ plants His good seed in our hearts, but many enemies exist that seek to snatch away, choke out, and scorch the Word that Christ preaches. Though we face the hot sun of temptation, the thorns and allurements of this life, as well as the devilish bird who tears this good Word away from us, we pray that through repentance and faith in Christ, our hearts would be made good and fertile ground that we would hear the Lord’s Word, and that the Word would bear abundant fruit in our lives. As Christ was victorious over every plot of Satan, we rejoice to consider also His victory over death and the grave. Jesus says, “He who has ears to hear, let Him hear.”

On what has now been sown
Thy blessing, Lord, bestow;
The pow’r is Thine alone
To make it sprout and grow.
Do Thou in grace the harvest raise,
And Thou alone shalt have the praise!
LSB #921 Text: Public domain