Wed the 7th

James 5:7

 

⁷Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains.

 

Paul could not have used a better example than the farmer to show how we must wait with patience. While the farmer waits, he is not idle. There is much work to be done to get ready for the harvest. Most of that work is tiring, and back breaking work. We have a lot on common with the farmer, while we wait for our spiritual harvest there is much work for us to do. So like the farmer we learn to work in faith. We ask for guidance, we pray for understanding, and we actively search out others to help in the work. Always searching, always moving forward, always full of faith that the Lord will provide the path when it is time to move. Patience is the key. We are on His time table not ours. While there is much to do, to try and force it would be a mistake. The Lord let’s us know when it is time to move, and we have to have the patience to work right where we are at until that time comes. The spiritual land we are on at the moment might need more work, or perhaps it is us that needs to take the time given to better our own understanding of the Lord, so that our work might be all the more fruitful. Whatever the case work with the patience of a farmer, trusting in God that our harvest will be bountiful. Bursting forth with the Love that is the Lord.

 

Peace,

Brian