Daily Bread_August 14, 2014

Title: How to Have Abundance and Joy At Harvest Time?

Text:

Hosea 10:12 (HCSB)
¹² Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unplowed ground. It is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.

Observation:

This is the classic case that you should begin with the end in mind; what you sow you will reap; it is the law of the harvest.

Galatians 6:7 (HCSB)
⁷ Don't be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

Instead of planting seeds of righteousness, and seeking the Lord; Israel was unfaithful and seeking things that were unrighteous.

Hosea 4:1 (HCSB)
¹ Hear the word of the LORD, people of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth, no faithful love, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Notice the result; the people of God reaped what they sowed.

Hosea 4:6 (HCSB)
⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.

Think about it; what do you want at harvest time? Are you sowing the seeds for the harvest you desire? O the blessing of sowing seeds of kindness, and the joy of reaping at harvest time.

Psalm 126:5-6 (HCSB)
⁵ Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. ⁶ Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves.

Prayer:

Father God, my dear Father, I lift my eyes up to You; and I ask for sufficient grace to be able to sow seeds of righteousness so that I might reap a harvest of righteousness and faithful love.

Father, I pray that anyone who is on the wrong track will repent, and get on the right track. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

"Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,
Fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze;
By and by, the harvest and the labor ended,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves."

Source of hymn: https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1349

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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
⁴ But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
⁸ Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.

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