Near the end of A New Hope as Luke is on his way to his X-Wing to attack the Death Star, he is upset that Han is leaving and bumps into Leia. She wants to know what is wrong with Luke.
Luke quietly tells her, “Oh, it’s Han! I don’t know. I really thought he’d change his mind.”
She replies, “He’s got to follow his own path. No one can choose it for him.”
What in Luke’s experience with Han would lead Luke to believe Han would change?
Han showed Luke that he was the type of person to think only of himself.
We meet people like Han today. They come across as someone who is more concerned about themselves than what is happening in the world around them.
When we share the Gospel with people, we are often like the person in the parable of the sower who goes out and Matthew 13:4-8, “And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose, they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”
We are called to sow the seed (Gospel).
We are not charged to make people believe. We cannot do that since that is the work of the Holy Spirit.
Han did return and help save the day.
So like Luke, we do not honestly know the condition of a person’s heart.
We think they are the soil on the path, but they could surprise us and be the good soil.
We need to go sow the seed.
