Hebrews 10:11-18 / Mark 4:1-20
The moment we are born into this world, we immediately come into a world of need.
We need to be fed, to be clothed, to be taken care of, to be loved - we are in need.
And as time goes by, we will also be called upon to fulfill the needs of others - to feed them, to clothe them, to take care of them, to love them.
And then we also begin to realize that there are other deeper needs - the need to be understood, the need to be accepted, to be forgiven.
The 1st reading has this line - When all sins have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.
But we also know that as much as we have been forgiven from all our sins, we still continue to sin.
That is why the Sacrament of Reconciliation continues to be celebrated. That is why the Eucharist continues to be celebrated.
It all points to the fact that we need God - we need His love, we need His forgiveness and mercy, we need His blessings in order to keep the faith.
But we also must remember that we need God not just for ourselves. We need God so that we can bear a harvest of a thirty, or a sixty or a hundred fold.
We must bear a harvest so that we can fulfill that need of others - that need for God so that all other needs will also be fulfilled.