What is your fruitful field?
Well it's coming on Summer and many of you are probably planting your vegetable gardens and looking forward to a great harvest of healthy food!
Here in desert, things will soon look dusty and dead. This is kind of like our winter in that it will soon be so hot that we won't be planting much of anything. But I am making sprouts (see above photo)! It's a way to see growth and green and even eat the miracle of God turning seeds into edible and nutritions food while outside it is dry and brown.
The point is, fruitful fields sometimes take a little work and a lot of faith to figure out and see. Sometimes the harvest isn't what we think or even where we think. For Christians, if you're not on the foreign mission field, you may think too little of where you are planted. The truth is, wherever God has planted you is your field. Does it appear fruitful? We need to think creatively. We need guidance from the Lord to see as Jesus sees.
For Jesus has said,
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! John 4:35
This month I'm posting a new song called Fruitful Fields. This is the first verse.
Though the fields look dead and brown
Thorns are thick and choke the ground
Though it’s hard now to believe
We shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves
Though the way is rough and steep
Still we have a charge to keep
We’ll win the war down on our knees
We shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves
Feel free to download here. This will be available free through the month of June.
Hope you all have a very fruitful summer!
xo
Charlotte