Sowing Light and Joy in Our Hearts
God is all about light. He is light, the opposite of darkness. He loves to give light to His people. God is also all about joy. He wants to give His joy to those who follow Him, too. The way He does this is to sow the seeds of light and joy in our hearts, so both can grow strong in us. However, there is a condition that the psalmist showed us. (Psalm 97:11,12) It takes good heart-soil to grow light and joy. Only when we have prepared hearts will the light-seeds and joy-seeds grow to maturity and bear fruit. Then, and only then, will we praise God and thank Him the way we should, because we are full of light and joy. Please, take a few moments to consider this spiritual reality.
The analogy of sowing and reaping appears over and over again in the Bible. It is one of the main principles that God uses to get His truth across to us. Jesus gave us the Parable of the Sower, but it could be called the Parable of the Soils. The point of His parable was that only the good soil brought forth fruit. That is an agricultural truth and a spiritual truth. My yard has poor soil, and I tried, but it won't grow anything very well. Therefore, I would ask all of us, "How much light and joy do you have in your life? Are you overflowing with both, or are they missing?" If we lack light to know God's will and the joy to rejoice no matter what happens in our lives, it is a heart problem. God has planted the seeds, but our heart-soil is too hard, rocky, or weed infested to allow them to grow. To see a bountiful harvest of light and joy, we must break up the soil of our heart and take out the weeds, so God's light and joy produce much fruit and change our lives for the better. We do that by repenting of sins as the Spirits shows us and deciding to be submissive to the Lord in whatever He says to us. I pray we will all do these things, so we can live in light and joy continually.
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Tomorrow, I intend to read Psalm 98-100.
The analogy of sowing and reaping appears over and over again in the Bible. It is one of the main principles that God uses to get His truth across to us. Jesus gave us the Parable of the Sower, but it could be called the Parable of the Soils. The point of His parable was that only the good soil brought forth fruit. That is an agricultural truth and a spiritual truth. My yard has poor soil, and I tried, but it won't grow anything very well. Therefore, I would ask all of us, "How much light and joy do you have in your life? Are you overflowing with both, or are they missing?" If we lack light to know God's will and the joy to rejoice no matter what happens in our lives, it is a heart problem. God has planted the seeds, but our heart-soil is too hard, rocky, or weed infested to allow them to grow. To see a bountiful harvest of light and joy, we must break up the soil of our heart and take out the weeds, so God's light and joy produce much fruit and change our lives for the better. We do that by repenting of sins as the Spirits shows us and deciding to be submissive to the Lord in whatever He says to us. I pray we will all do these things, so we can live in light and joy continually.
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Tomorrow, I intend to read Psalm 98-100.