The Sign of God

UV 3213/10000 The Sign of God
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as growth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

The Lord may appear to be silent about answering our needs. But He sends us signs to encourage us. To several of His servants right through history, the Lord has confirmed that they are blessed of Him by sending them specific signs that they alone can decipher. The Lord sent the sign of salvation to mankind by causing a virgin, a young unmarried woman Mary to bear the divine child, Immanuel or God with Us, aka Jesus Christ. Only the believer can recognize and accept these signs as faith facts or facts per se but cannot be proven to the sceptic or unbeliever.
In the uni-verse above, the Lord promises to initiate something that will grow organically this year and the next and bear fruit in the third year. The Lord is not a debtor to us. He remembers and rewards us for every action of ours that we have done to honour Him, to obey Him, to please Him. He blesses our sowing, our growing and our reaping. The Lord blesses the labour of our hands and enable us to eat of it. We need to be patient and wait for the time of harvest. He will not sow, plough, fertilize but He will send the rain of His blessings on time. He will fence our efforts and keep the spoiler, the enemy from plundering or causing havoc in our vineyards.

The Lord continually watches, waters and tends to us. But the enemy sends many subtle serpents and cunning foxes into our vineyards- the sources of spiritual fruit in our lives. These serpents and foxes are lusts of different kinds, pride, deceit, false teachings and beliefs, bitterness, egoism and the like. The little foxes slip in if there are big gaps in our fences of prayer accompanied by meditation on the Word of God. Instead of the naive farmer being caught in the snares of serpents and foxes, the diligent farmer sets traps or early warning systems for the intruding serpents and marauding foxes. The Holy Spirit will warn us early enough but we need to be sensitive and responsive enough to listen keenly and avoid the snares. Often we are ensnared by our own thoughts and words. Sin sticks to our skin like blood sucking leeches and only the salt of the word can cause these leeches in the vineyards of our lives to release their tentacles from our skin. When we have crossed all these perils sometimes we come face to face with the roaring lion. Faithful prayer in the name of Jesus can silence the roar of the lion for Jesus is no longer a meek lamb waiting to be slain but the risen Lion of Zion who has defeated our every foe.