Heaven Land Devotions - Blessed Are Ye That Sow Besides All Waters

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A couple of early mornings ago I lay awake preparing myself to
get up and to pray. I began to think about who and what I would
pray about. A person came into my mind that I always pray for,
and have for a long time. I began to feel discouraged,
frustrated, even mad.   My thoughts were about why they
are so resistant. Why they will not come to the Lord more fully,
and down went my heart. Immediately I heard these words within,
"Why are you mad? I am not mad. There is no reason to be mad. I
have long patience for them."  


Just then I heard those words more fully within from James 5:7,
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early
and latter rain."  


I knew the Lord was speaking to my heart by His own word. I saw
that His long patience is deeply rooted in love. His love. The
loving heart of our Father in heaven. In that few minutes of
discouragement, frustration and anger, I can say there was no
love, only hardness of heart, as if their refusal to give their
life over to God depended on me. 


I was wrong, and He showed me in His loving, patient way towards
me. I looked back to my whole life journeying, and saw how great
the long patience God had for me when I was full of pride, self
involved and spiritually immature. Yet, because He loved me, He
waited long. All that frustration and anger fled from me as the
darkness flees away when the brilliant light of Christ invades
Satan's spiritual darkness. 


Amy Carmichael said, "We often make the mistake of trying to
press people to accept Jesus before they have really been
convicted and awakened to feel their need of a Savior. Or
pressing them on to blessings they are not ready for, like the
fullness of the Spirit, before they know about cleansing and
consecration. It is as if we try to sow before the ground
has been broken up by the plowshare, and we try to sow the ground
before it has been broken up, and weeded and watered." 


If we are to sow into the hard clay soils of their hearts, let us
pray to the Lord to send rain, and let the soils of their hearts
become soft with His showers. There is no limit for those who
seek for Lord to prepare the soils before we even begin to cast
seed into their grounds. We cannot ask too much of them, but we
can ask all we can from God "who giveth rain in His seasons."
Amen.   


"This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift.
Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may
make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done
for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this
job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.” ― Elisabeth
Elliot