At the beginning of this year our Home Group prayerfully reflected on 2011, we had all been through different seasons, pleasure and pain, and had shared the privilege of journeying closely as a family. As we committed the coming year to the Lord and prayed, my husband Chris shared a picture the Lord had given him, a field of golden wheat, ripe and ready for the harvest blowing in the breeze. What an affirmation to us that I had been given the same vision at the very same time.
I saw a field of tall green blades blowing in the wind, as I watched they turned to fields of gold wheat, the words and tune from the old hymn "Come ye thankful people come" came to mind...."First the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear"
This is a year of harvest! Be encouraged by this parable found only in Mark's gospel:
Then Jesus said, "God's kingdom is like seed thrown on a field by a man who then goes to bed and forgets about it. The seed sprouts and grows—he has no idea how it happens. The earth does it all without his help: first a green stem of grass, then a bud, then the ripened grain. When the grain is fully formed, he reaps—harvest time!" Mark 4:26-29 [The Message]
Being a gardener, I am constantly amazed at the miracle of seed-sowing and growth. As we share God's word or help others, be encouraged that the seed WILL grow. I believe that our sharing of the spirit and love of God will produce a harvest, it's that simple. In this passage about spiritual growth we cannot understand the process, that is God's department. God does all the hard work, He is the one that makes the seed grow, but he still uses us to plant the seed. Whatever seed you have been sowing for the Lord, it is Harvest Time!..Seeds of prayer? Answers are coming! Seeds of money? Pennies from heaven are on their way! Seeds of the word? Hearts are being harvested! Seeds of time? The investment is about to mature!
How wonderful to know that, even as we sleep, seeds are growing as His word grows in us.
Dawn Milward
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