A farmer has to plow up fallow ground in order to produce seed bearing plantings. I’ve read historical accounts of the early settlers in land that is uncultivated prairie. They had to toil to dig up the fallow ground. They also had to haul water from a river in order to keep their crops hydrated.

The opposite of fallow ground was recorded in Psalm 1:3. It says, “He shall be like a tree planted by rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.”

What are the conditions that we need to meet in order to have such fertile ground in our hearts? Verse 1 says that we don’t walk in the counsel of the ungodly. We don’t hang out with folks who are scornful ~ contemptuous. 

Verse 2 says, “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.” The Hebrew word for meditate means to abandon all outside distractions.