Encouragement
GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY
Today's reading: Psalm 125-127
"Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest." Psalm 126:5-6
The golden ears of corn are hanging heavy in the fields surrounding our home. The stalks have dried, shriveled and twisted into papery, brown reminders of summer's growth. The combines are serviced and ready to pull into the fields for harvest as soon as the ground dries.
Seems like only yesterday they disced the field. I remember watching on Memorial Day as the corn planter marked the newly turned over soil with lines of planted seeds. Day after day I watched until I saw the tiny shoots of green emerge from their dirt beds.
Waiting. Watching. Wondering. Working away the hours until the season arrives for something else to be done. It's the life of a farmer.
It's your life, too--if you're a pray-er.
We all know how it is to plant with tears. Lifting up the names and circumstances of our loved ones, dear friends and lost family members. We sob as the seeds of hope are wrapped tightly in cocoons of prayer and placed into our Father's hands as we await a harvest. We've dirtied our hands grasping to the hope He says we have as we intercede on behalf of another. We busy ourselves with service in other areas where we see Him at work while we wait.
I have to tell you I'm encouraged to see how the psalmist has written the passage. It clearly states that 'Those who plant in tears WILL harvest with shouts of joy...' That's a guarantee, my friends. A guarantee!
Harvest is near, harvest is near!
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