Bad emotional experiences can be the fruit and harvest of bad seed we may have sown, or bad and negative seed which other people may have sown in our lives.
What type of soil are you? How do you react to people criticising you and judging you and commenting upon your work in a negative manner? Words can affect and influence us more than we are sometime prepared to admit!
When Jesus Christ spoke and taught about sowing seed and reaping a harvest, He made it very clear that there were different types of soil.
Some seed fell on good soil and when it bore fruit the crop could be thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.
Consider that for a moment in terms of gossip, criticism and backbiting, because what we sow has a habit of producing fruit, and that can be sore, hurtful and painful.
The writer of Psalm 32 went through a seriously bad emotional spell before he confessed to God. Now, we need to learn this vital lesson. Once we call upon Almighty God we can experience something similar to the Psalmist. Do read Psalm 32. He felt wasted and he groaned and he thought there was a heavy hand upon him and that his very strength was being sapped away.
I have met many people who have been in such a situation over the years and some have been in that state for years and that need not have been so.
When the Psalmist prayed he discovered that God was his hiding place and that God was covering him from the onslaughts of his many enemies.
Sow a seed of prayer. Cry out to God. Call upon God.
Never be too shy or call out to God and never be too proud to cry out to Jesus Christ for help and forgiveness and strength.
Pride can do so much damage. Holding on to our superficial reputation is seldom worth it if we are in dire straights and in need of the help of our Creator God.
It is possible to increase our harvest by sowing more seed, and by feeding the soil, and tending the plants.
When teaching on the vine, Jesus spoke about the gardener using a hoe and secateurs.
Bad weeds have to be removed. Weak growth, debilitating the plant, and hindering the production of good fruit, must be cut out.
Read John Chapter 15 in the New Testament to fill your heart with spiritual encouragement.
In fact, make sure you are in the Bible every day. Some may need Bible reading notes to discipline their reading and study but the spiritual harvest will certainly be worth all the effort. If I can assist you in this area do contact me and allow me to minister to you in the Name of the risen and living Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
When it comes to sowing and planting we do so by faith, and not by feelings.
Do you think the farmer feels good about getting up in the morning and going out to work? He does what he may not feel like doing.
Sometimes people may come to Services with heavy hearts, near to breaking, or with tears streaming down their faces, but once praise and sincere joyful worship begins, spirits lift, and burdens lighten.
The Psalmist knew what it was to sow in tears and reap in joy.
For God, who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed, and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Now is the best time to sow and plant. God teaches us that those who wait for perfect weather will never plant seeds, and those who look at every cloud will never reap a harvest.
Waiting for perfection can paralyse potential.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar