Isaiah 28:24-26
When a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil?
When he has levelled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?
His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
Every year farmers plough and sow. They do not have years when they just plough and years when they just sow. In your prayers and in your living you must both plough and sow. Just as on a farm some ground will be soft and productive while other ground will be hard and in need of more work to break it up and make it productive, so you have seen breakthrough in some areas while strongholds remain in others. Learn to discern the time to plough and the time to sow. In this coming year you need to continue to break up very hard ground but you also need to recognise what has already been broken up and not miss the opportunities to sow.
Remember that what is sown has the potential to yield a harvest of a hundredfold. When you who are faithful, but few in number, sow righteousness the town will produce a hundredfold harvest of righteousness. When you sow submission to God, many others will submit. When you sow forgiveness and bless those who curse you, anger and violence will cease in the town. When you sow generosity, greed will be destroyed. When you sow love, people will be set free from selfishness. Do not say, “When O Lord will this town bow the knee to you?” You bow the knee and see if others will not follow.
By Matthew Jeanes.
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