In a similar way, there are always people who “receive the word with joy” but who cannot endure the blast of trials and temptations Satan sends against every believer. They fall away “because they have no root.” The third soil is one in which “seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants” (vv. 7, 14). Again, the problem was not with the good seed. In this case, neither was it the nature of the soil. Although the soil was fertile enough to allow the good seed to spring to life,