My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Don't grow weary in doing good - Glatians 4-6
I am glad I am not a farmer. I simply don't have the patience. You plow the ground and then you plant the seed and then you wait for the rain and then you wait for ... That is the part I would not be good at. The "waiting" part. Simply waiting for the work to bear fruit, knowing it will, is very hard for me. I am just not that patient. You know the nutrients in the ground and the seed are doing their dance beneath the covering of the earth, but you still wonder if they will ever produce anything. Beneath the view of everyone the water, the seed, and the "stuff" in the ground begin to do their work. You can't see it but must believe it is all working together to produce the "fruit of YOUR labor" which is really the fruit of THEIR labor. But, although I am not a farmer, I do know what this is like. When you are "do ministry" you have to have the same mindset. You plant seed (His Word) and you wait for the rain (His Spirit). They do their "dance" and you wait for the fruit to produce what God intends. In Galatians 6:9 we read that we will reap spiritual fruit in our well doing if we don't grow weary. It is so hard to wait for God to do something. But, He is working beneath the surface and will produce fruit. The producing of the plant for the farmer is not his job. He is to tear up the ground, plant the seed and pull the weeds. God's process produces the fruit. In the same manner we are to tear up the soul of the ground, plant the Seed of His Word and pull weeds in the life. God produces the fruit. Let's not grow weary when we don't see fruit. Let's let God do His part and be happy doing our part. Don't grow weary in well doing.
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