Perhaps you like to plant seeds and have thought how wonderful it is that dry seeds put in the ground, spring up into big plants, even great trees from small seeds. The wise king gave good advice about sowing; he said,
“He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.”
A farmer watches the winds and clouds, as signs of rain or storms, yet if he always waits for the right wind, or a time of no clouds, he will not sow his fields nor reap any grain. For no one knows just how or when things grow. It is all a wonder to us, even the growth of our own bones, we cannot understand; the king said:
“Thou knowest not the works of God Who maketh all.”
Then there is a special seed, more woerful than all others, which also grows by the mighty power of God; it is not to be sown in grobral, but in the hearts of people. This seed is the Word of God, the Bible, which tells of Jesus, the Saviour; and by believing Him, men, women, boys, and girls are given a new life which makes them happier on earth, and fitted for life with God in Heaven. It was Jesus who called the Word of God, “seed” (Luke 8:1111Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. (Luke 8:11)).
There is something else wonderful about this sowing, it is, that God wants those who believe Him to sow this seed, even small boys or girls. He has not given this work to His angels, but to people, and the way to sow it, is to tell or read or give God’s words to some one who does not know or think about Him, and to do it kindly and patiently.
We may wait a long time for this “seed” to grow, perhaps it will be another who sees it grow, not the one who first gives it. Sometimes in the garden, a seed is dropped outside of a row and becomes a stronger plant than the ones in the row. So God may bless some one by a few words which no one else knows about.
The need for this “seed” to be sown is so great, it must have been meant by the wise king, when he said,
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, this or that, or whether they shall both be alike good.”
Do you notice the king did not call sowing seed “vanity” (something empty), as he did riches, and many other things?
It was a young man who was told:
ML 08/10/1941