Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

For more digital content to

feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. Hey, thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive podcast. My name is bro, and man, I love, love,

spring. So I thought we would embrace the spring and talk about

different ways that God grows us and we began the week talking about how God will use pivotal

circumstances to grow us up some of the things that we thought were the absolute worst things

of our life actually grew our character in supernatural ways. Now, it didn't make the experience

any less hard or negate the tragedy of it all, but God was able to do some really good things

on the inside of us through all of it. For the past few days, we've been talking to how God also

uses practical teaching to do his miracle-growth thing inside of us. And we've been hanging in

the story that Jesus tells about

sowers and seeds and soils. The soils represent the kind of heart that people bring to God

when his word gets sown. We talked about the concrete sidewalk kind of heart that is hard and

unreceptive, and so the seed just bounces off of that heart and nothing is able to grow.

Yesterday, Jesus introduced the kind of soil that is rocky and shallow, and compared it to the

kind of heart that hears the truth, even gets excited about it, but never allows it to take root.

It's never allowed to get to a deep place where it can grow and produce any kind of fruit.

And there's a third type of

soil that Jesus talks about. Looks a lot like my yard right now, and the out of balance places my

...