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

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today's devotional. Hey, happy Friday, everybody. Welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is Mike,

and we've been having a springtime discussion for the past few days while all the trees,

flowers, crops, and grass are growing. We thought we talked about a few different ways that God

grows us. We've talked about pivotal circumstances. And for the past few days, we've been talking

about how he uses practical teaching, how God wants to plant his word in soft, fertile hearts.

Jesus refers to that kind of heart as good soil.

So we've been in a story in Matthew chapter 13 that Jesus tells us. Jump back into the story.

He's already talked about hard-packed soil hearts, talked about shallow soil and hearts,

talked about the kind that eventually gets choked out by weeds. And then he says that

still other seat fell on good soil,

where it produced a crop, 160 or 30 times what was sown.

And then he says this,

the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man or the woman,

who hears the word and understands it.

They're the kind of people who produce a crop yielding 160 or 30 times what was sown.

One of the things that I've always looked for in hiring people or coaching kids or even

choosing close friends is their humility, their teachability, their grateful spirit.

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