A Ministry In Parables – Take Heed What You Hear

"For the intention of all God's hiding—which hiding is an integral part of His revealing—is not to conceal, but to reveal. Sometimes the best way of making a thing known to men is to veil it in a measure, in order that the very obscurity, like the morning mists which prophesy a blazing sun in a clear sky by noon day, may demand search and quicken curiosity and spur to effort. He is not a wise teacher who makes things too easy" (Alexander Maclaren). The parables Jesus told were easy to hear, but profound in meaning. He cautions that the words He spoke were not just for marginal discussion, but were for radical decision. He states "Listen!" (4:3). Now He states, "Take heed what you hear" (4:24).