"Now listen! A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field. While the farmer was scattering the seed, some of it fell along the road and was eaten by birds. Other seeds fell on thin, rocky ground and quickly started growing because the soil wasn’t very deep. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched and dried up, because they did not have enough roots. ." Mark 4: 3-6 In this parable of the sower, Jesus describes some Christians with roots that do not go deep enought into the soil. Good soil along with sunlight, fresh air, and water are imperitive for healthy plants to grow. In Jesus' analogy of the farmer "good soil" represents the Word of God; the Gospel message! (Mark 4: 14). What we do with the Gospel has an everlasting effect on the person we become in life and also eternally in heaven. How we apply God's Word to our lives has eternal consequences; both positive and negative. In his book Gutenberg to Google, James O. Davis describes mankind as visual learners. Why is the visual sense so dominant? it is estimated that the nerve endings of eyes are struck by literally 700,000 stimuli every instant. We cannot escape the massive impact of this bombarment on our brain. Psycologists have said that viewing something three times has the power of one actual experience. This fact alone has enormous consequence, The power of vision can be used for good or ill. But there is no question that it is a strong power. (Decker, 82). Think about the amount of negative imagery we allow into our minds on a daily basis. The amount of time we spend viewing the news and the amount of time we spend in front of the computer or in front of the television! Now compare this time to the amount of time we spend reading and meditating on God's word. How much time do we spend visualizing the Bible's stories and applying them to our daily lives? How does our time viewing the secular and the spiritual compare? For most of us the answer is sobering. As Christians we must continually be examining our soil. Just as the plants in our garden need good soil in order to thrive into healthy and beautiful eye delights; we must continually be striving to take care of the soil in our spiritual garden, if we are to become produtive Christians. "But a few seeds did fall on good ground where the plants grew and produced thirty or sixty or even a hundred times as much as was scattered. Then Jesus said, “If you have ears, pay attention.” Mark 4: 8-9