Jesus often spoke to people through stories that related to their everyday lives. Speaking to the people of the fertile plains around the Sea of Galilee, Jesus told this parable about a farmer sowing seed upon different kinds of soil. Each kind of soil represents the hearts which receive the Good News of God’s Kingdom. Our job as followers of Jesus is to prepare our own hearts and then sow Jesus’ Good Seed indiscriminately trusting that God will cause it to germinate, take root, grow, and produce fruit wheresoever God chooses.