Every farmer understands a simple truth: you cannot grow life in dead ground. You can scatter the best seed in the world, but if the soil is choked, dry, hardened, or contaminated, nothing happens. It doesn’t matter how powerful the seed is; the soil determines the harvest. When Jesus taught the Parable of the Sower, He wasn’t giving agricultural advice. He was exposing the deepest spiritual reality of human existence: the condition of a person’s heart determines what grows f