“Thrashing” is generally a most enjoyable season of work, for the neighbors of a farmer who is about to thrash, go to him for the time, so that the expense of hiring men is saved.
When the thrashing machine has been brought up and started, the “hands” who have come together pitch the sheaves into a cylinder, where they are broken to pieces and beaten. The grain, being heavier than the straw and chaff, falls into sacks or into a heap at the bottom, while the straw and chaff are blown through a large pipe on to a stack. This process having continued until all the sheaves have been thrashed, the floor is cleaned up, and all sit down to a hearty and well-earned meal.
Have you ever thought of what such a thrashing may rightly remind us? There is a time of thrashing of which the Lord Jesus speaks to us in God’s holy Word. It will not be a merry time for all, as a thrashing usually is; for there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in connection with it. It is the thrashing of Gods judgment. We read, “Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather His wheat into His garner, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire” Matthew 3:1212Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:12).
Very soon this thrashing may take place. Are you “wheat” or “chaff?” Will you be gathered into God’s garner of everlasting joy and blessing? or will you suffer the vengeance of eternal life?
Now is the day of salvation. Put not off coming to Christ for another hour. Come at once! for still the message runs “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” Acts 16:3030And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (Acts 16:30).
ML 09/20/1931