PAIN IS NOT POINTLESS IN BUILDING SOIL
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
I have one last thought for you about the processing of the soil of our lives that may be helpful...it was to me. In Isaiah 28:23-29 we see a different kind of view to the pain that we so often suffer in this life. This isn't something that most people hold on to and yet I find this is true in many cases with my own life. In cultivating the soil of our lives for various crops the farmer has to treat soil in different ways. Sometimes he must work and till the soil vigorously which means the soil itself must be cut and beaten down until it becomes soft and pliable to the touch of the farmer during the growth process.
That soil is for us our very lives; and if it is constantly cut and pulverized in life we feel it, and we react to the pain of it. I don't think that willingly any of us would want to go through the tilling process, or to have fertilizer spread across our lives in order for us to grow a crop that God seeks to have from us, and yet many times that is the case.
There is that painful realization that when we come to Christ we give God the authority to begin a painful process of preparing our lives like the soil of a field to grow a crop that will sooner or later produce a harvest. Who among us needs that painful plowing? What we need to realize is that pain is not always pointless, and pain is not always due to sin somewhere in our lives because it is also a teaching aid that God uses to prepare hearts. If we look back on the soil of our lives from where we first came to Christ until now most of us can see the painful process of plowing , tiling, and mixing the soil with the right ingredients to grow the kind of crop that God desires from our lives.
Hebrews 12:11 tells us He will produce in us " The peaceable fruit of righteousness" I believe that God knows exactly what He is doing in each life that He cultivates the seed of the Gospel in...how about you? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
I have one last thought for you about the processing of the soil of our lives that may be helpful...it was to me. In Isaiah 28:23-29 we see a different kind of view to the pain that we so often suffer in this life. This isn't something that most people hold on to and yet I find this is true in many cases with my own life. In cultivating the soil of our lives for various crops the farmer has to treat soil in different ways. Sometimes he must work and till the soil vigorously which means the soil itself must be cut and beaten down until it becomes soft and pliable to the touch of the farmer during the growth process.
That soil is for us our very lives; and if it is constantly cut and pulverized in life we feel it, and we react to the pain of it. I don't think that willingly any of us would want to go through the tilling process, or to have fertilizer spread across our lives in order for us to grow a crop that God seeks to have from us, and yet many times that is the case.
There is that painful realization that when we come to Christ we give God the authority to begin a painful process of preparing our lives like the soil of a field to grow a crop that will sooner or later produce a harvest. Who among us needs that painful plowing? What we need to realize is that pain is not always pointless, and pain is not always due to sin somewhere in our lives because it is also a teaching aid that God uses to prepare hearts. If we look back on the soil of our lives from where we first came to Christ until now most of us can see the painful process of plowing , tiling, and mixing the soil with the right ingredients to grow the kind of crop that God desires from our lives.
Hebrews 12:11 tells us He will produce in us " The peaceable fruit of righteousness" I believe that God knows exactly what He is doing in each life that He cultivates the seed of the Gospel in...how about you? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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