The Gospel passage this week is Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23: the Parable of the Sower.

I know this text well. Prior to this week's message, though, I had never given much thought to whether the four categories of soil could apply to one person. Perhaps it’s the wording, perhaps it’s my ignorance. I always assumed they were four discrete categories relating to different people. Never did I stop to think that these four categories could refer to one person on a journey of becoming – becoming who he or she was intended to be for God’s honour and glory. Never before did I consider that these four categories could be describing the beauty of the becoming of each and every one of us as we grow in our life in Christ, and in the Spirit.