Faith Farming
“A sower went out to sow…”—Matthew 13:3b
Have you ever thought about the importance of farmers? They are essential to our lives. Without them, we have no food to eat. They labor day and night in order to put food on our tables. Their lives are hard and their day goes from sunup to sundown.
With the pressures of life and the demand for more output, many farmers have abandoned many of the practices that worked in the past. And for the last several years a great deal of farmers have turned to chemicals to help their crop. Although it appears to help them at first, we have learned that most chemicals in the long run are devastating to the soil, crop, or affects those that consume the food that comes from the crop in some fashion.
That’s why I prefer organic food. Organic food is grown without the help of chemicals but naturally. All of those that come to Christ are “organic Christians.” There is no spiritual chemical, no method, or way to make someone become a Christian. We cannot make someone become a Christian. We cannot make someone a Christian no more than we can make the earth spin in the opposite direction. God has decreed how an individual is to come to Christ and that is through the Word of God. We are all farmers, spiritually speaking, and as farmers are essential to our lives, so too are we essential to the growing of Christ’s church. Farmers plant seed and God has called us to “sow the seed” which is the Word of God. We are to go out in the dry fields of life and toss the seed this way and that way, not knowing which one’s are going to take root and grow, but absolutely sure that some will grow.
Our joy and delight is to simply plant the seed in the knowledge that God is the one who makes it grow (1 Corinthians 3:6). He has promised it is going to grow (Isaiah 55:11). He decreed who is going to come to Christ, but He has also decreed the means by which they will come to Christ. Most of us who have come to Christ, have come through our relationship with a Christian who was “sowing the seed” of their words and their life into us. In other words, they organically disseminated the gospel of truth. Let us strive to become “organic Christians” sowing the gospel of truth to all so that God might take the seed we sow and make it into a great crop to the honor and praise of His glory. Amen.
Have you ever thought about the importance of farmers? They are essential to our lives. Without them, we have no food to eat. They labor day and night in order to put food on our tables. Their lives are hard and their day goes from sunup to sundown.
With the pressures of life and the demand for more output, many farmers have abandoned many of the practices that worked in the past. And for the last several years a great deal of farmers have turned to chemicals to help their crop. Although it appears to help them at first, we have learned that most chemicals in the long run are devastating to the soil, crop, or affects those that consume the food that comes from the crop in some fashion.
That’s why I prefer organic food. Organic food is grown without the help of chemicals but naturally. All of those that come to Christ are “organic Christians.” There is no spiritual chemical, no method, or way to make someone become a Christian. We cannot make someone become a Christian. We cannot make someone a Christian no more than we can make the earth spin in the opposite direction. God has decreed how an individual is to come to Christ and that is through the Word of God. We are all farmers, spiritually speaking, and as farmers are essential to our lives, so too are we essential to the growing of Christ’s church. Farmers plant seed and God has called us to “sow the seed” which is the Word of God. We are to go out in the dry fields of life and toss the seed this way and that way, not knowing which one’s are going to take root and grow, but absolutely sure that some will grow.
Our joy and delight is to simply plant the seed in the knowledge that God is the one who makes it grow (1 Corinthians 3:6). He has promised it is going to grow (Isaiah 55:11). He decreed who is going to come to Christ, but He has also decreed the means by which they will come to Christ. Most of us who have come to Christ, have come through our relationship with a Christian who was “sowing the seed” of their words and their life into us. In other words, they organically disseminated the gospel of truth. Let us strive to become “organic Christians” sowing the gospel of truth to all so that God might take the seed we sow and make it into a great crop to the honor and praise of His glory. Amen.
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