Worth it?

I’ve often said Sunday’s are like a cheetah pursuing the preacher. It comes every seven days. And, if you do this long the time will come in a stretch, or in stretches when sometimes you’ll go home wondering if anything changed. You visit, you counsel, you listen, you pray, your study, you plan, you prepare and sometimes it seems nothing happens. And, sometimes, to use Jeremiah’s words, it is wearying. 

I know you know this, but I’d like to remind you (2 Timothy 2:14; Titus 3:1; 2 Peter 1:12) when living in that parched stretch, you plant seeds (1 Corinthians 3:6; Ecclesiastes 11:6) from The Seed (Luke 8:11). The Greek is emphatic, not seeds, seed. The power of the kingdom is in the Message itself.  There’s nothing wrong in any of these senecios with the Seed. And there is nothing indicated that there’s any problem with the Sower. So, we keep sowing. Jesus didn’t say the seed was our creativity, our personality, or our ability, when we plant the Word of God, we’re planting something that already has life in it.

Now, go back to the Ecclesiastes verse we mentioned above: “sow your seed…withhold not your hand… you do not know which will prosper.” Ecclesiastes assumes the uncertainty of the sower. That’s us to a “t.” You scatter the Word widely because you never know which heart is ready. Just keep sowing, keep sowing. Let God handle the increase.