The Alpha of the Seed and the Sower

UV 3164/10000 The Alpha of Seed and the Sower
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
Psalm 126 v 6
In the beginning, nature yielded crop, food and fruit on its own. After the fall of man, God had cursed the ground and said that the soil will have to be tilled, ploughed and worked. He also ordained that man shall eat out of the sweat of his brow. Sweat of perseverance is a kind of tears of our bodies. Accordingly, the Lord had set a time for weeping and a time for rejoicing. There is a time for sowing and a time for reaping. If we follow all the conditions for sowing, the harvest of crop or fruit will also ordinarily be gratifying provided the climate also holds good. The climate or the period of sunshine, the cloud cover, the rain and timing of the rain are the x factor or the unknown factor that is not in our hands but in the hands of the Lord. We need to persevere and do all that lies with us to do. When we cry out and pray to the Lord with genuine faith and thanksgiving, the Lord wills see our tears of faith, our “liquid prayer” as it is known, and He will wipe our tears. He also values our tears of repentance. It is written that He collects our tears in a bottle. He will comfort, encourage, strengthen, provide, enable us. There are different kinds of tears even as there are different kinds of seed. Jesus wept not for Himself but for mankind. He wept for the Jews of Jerusalem and Israel. Now He rejoices that people of every nation, tribe, language are redeemed by His passion.

At the time of sowing, we cannot be casual, lazy or careless. We need to reflect due diligence in our efforts. Even if we show an ounce of faith and confidence in the Lord and in ourselves, the Lord will multiply it many times. The mustard seed of faith that is so tiny as to be almost invisible will keep growing into a mighty unshakable mountain of strength. There are a variety of seed a man carries, seed for his food, seed of ideas, seed of words spoken to those in our inner and outer circles, seed of desires, seed of hope. For every need of a human, there is a corresponding seed in the spiritual realms. The Word of God is a bag of powerful or miraculous and precious seed. We need to dip into this bag as often as we can for the Lord is the giver of Seed. He gave His Seed, His Son Jesus who fell to the earth like a seed, died, rose again and multiplied to populate the kingdom of God with His own kind. We need to intercede for the barren souls of this world with tears and pleading.

The uni-verse ends with the assurance that “doubtless”, we will return to the same field where we sowed the seed with tears to witness the flourishing crop, the astounding results of our faith and toil. It will cause us to experience the joy of salvation. We will celebrate the victory of the Lord with laughter in the tabernacle of our souls. We will know that it is marvellous and it is done by the Lord. Our hearts will be filled with the emotion of joy, our souls with peace and our mouths with laughter and praise. The word “carrying” implies that we should between the period of sowing and the harvesting, be pregnant with faith that the Lord is going to do a marvellous thing. We should be full of excitement or earnest expectation that our tears, our efforts, our prayers, our faith is not in vain. Though there are a variety of seeds, we need to be focussed and carry only one seed at a time for the sowing. Our tears will water the soil or hard ground in which the seed falls. We should also always carry only good seed in the form of thoughts in our minds, emotions in our hearts, words from our mouths. We cannot mix the good seed of the Word with the bad seed of the world or else the tares or weeds will come up with the good crop.