The land stands silently on either side of the country road. On one side a crop of corn is past and the short-lived stalks wither, awaiting the reaper. Directly across the road a large field is sprawling with a low, green crop of beans. It's the same kind of soil, in the same stretch of countryside. The land produces the base and the provides the raw nutrients that, combined with light and rainfall, permit the food to grow to maturity...crop after crop...season after season...year following year. We are like the land, as individual people and as people groups. God has invested our frames with the structure and the raw material to produce crops in seasonal fashion. With the light of His Word and the rain of His Spirit, and the disciplined tending of the great Farmer, our lives grow to maturity and produce a savory yield for a Heavenly delight. And when our final crop has been collected for earthly harvest, our land will go on to produce for Heaven's markets . Crops and seasons come and go...but the land remains.
Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
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