Notes of Faith September 26, 2024
Every Deed a Seed
He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalm 126:6
Try asking God to make your every deed a seed. Even our smallest actions can witness for Christ in these last days. The swift appearing of Jesus Christ has deepened the urgency of our times.
It was a farmer whistling hymns that prompted Jane Guinness to seek and find Christ. Another farmer offered to let a teenager named Billy Graham drive his truck if he’d attend the Mordecai Ham crusade, and Billy was saved. Ham himself felt God’s hand fall on him when he watched his grandfather on his death bed pointing upward as if seeing Jesus. An unknown saint donated a few dollars to provide the Gideon Bible that brought baseball player Orel Hershiser to Christ. Charles Spurgeon was converted when a layman quoted Isaiah 45:22: “Look to Me, and be saved.”
As we prepare for Christ’s return, we’re not all far-famed preachers, but God has many kinds of pulpits. Ask Him to bless everything you do and every word you say toward the progress of the Kingdom.
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness, sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve; waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Knowles Shaw
Ps 126
When the Lord brought us back to Jerusalem,
it was like a dream!
2 How we laughed, how we sang for joy!
Then the other nations said about us,
"The Lord did great things for them."
3 Indeed he did great things for us;
how happy we were!
4 Lord, make us prosperous again,
just as the rain brings water back to dry riverbeds.
5 Let those who wept as they planted their crops,
gather the harvest with joy!
6 Those who wept as they went out carrying the seed
will come back singing for joy,
as they bring in the harvest.
A smile, a kind word, fresh baked cookies for a neighbor, holding a door open, paying the check, quoting your favorite verse, wearing clothing that speaks of Jesus…all good ways to plant seeds that can lead to spiritual growth and salvation in Christ. Thanks to a fellow pastor, I share these words, “Go out and plant some seeds!” Pray for the Lord of the harvest to bring growth unto salvation and eternal life in those for whom we weep and plant seeds.
Pastor Dale