Seedtime and Harvest

strawberry plants at the farm
(photo snapped yesterday)

"Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest." (Psalm 126:5-6)

Lots and lots of tilling and weeding and planting and mulching and fertilizing and weeding and watering and weeding and waiting and weeding and watering and waiting and did I mention weeding and at long last picking precedes eating luscious, sweet, red-ripe strawberries.

And so it is with the Word of God. Christ's simple truths may be sown into a hard heart for years and years and years before the seed penetrates, sprouts, and blossoms to fruition. 

Keep sowing, beloved.

"The things we do today - sowing seeds or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him." ~ George Matheson