Spring is one of the busy seasons at the farm. It’s a season
of great expectation.
After the long winter, most farmers are itching to get to
the land. We work up the soil and prepare it for the seeds.
Then we plant the seeds, and pray for a harvest.
It’s fun to be an observer to this annual event. The more
farmers that live in my house the more the excitement grows.
Sometimes things happen that scare the farmer’s wife, an
example of that would be the phone call this spring from Trent.
“Mom, has dad called you yet?”
In my head I’m thinking, no, but what happened. “No, why”
(Trent has now been introduced to the proper procedure for
telling a mother about close calls. He starts the conversation with, “mom, I’m
o.k., but…, )
Trent began telling me how he was driving an open air
tractor, and he was pulling a dump cart that was too big for it. As he began
descending a hill the dump cart began bouncing and it continued to bounce until
it was right beside Trent’s tractor and they both thought going into the ditch
was a better place for this new configuration.
It reminded me that my prayer life is essential as we face a
season of farming. You never know. But that’s really true for any season.
As I reflect on spring and the expectation of it, I am
reminded of my short life on this earth. In the scope of eternity even if we
live to be 100, that’s not that long. I want to live a life of great
expectation. A life that shows purpose,
faith and a hope that does not fade. This requires for me to walk by faith not
by sight.
2 Corinthians 4
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are
wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and
momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs
them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal!
When Kent prepares a field for seeds, there is a time of
waiting where our eye cannot detect anything going on. But there is!! It’s
actually an amazing miracle, God has designed a seed to burst forth with new
life, and that life comes forth from the moisture He has given or allows us to
give, and the sunshine that He shines down. Every field is a miracle, a
reminder of let go and watch God!
I don’t mean to minimize what the farmer does or his sons,
but I know they are very aware that with all they can do and the technology
that has improved their ability to farm the land, God determines our harvest.
It’s that way for us too, in this life sometimes a step God
is asking us to take makes sense and sometimes it doesn’t. But when I can
remember that all God wants is my obedience, “Kim, just drop in the seed.” I
can leave the harvest to Him.
I cannot wait to see what God is going to do with the
harvest this year on the farm. I cannot wait to laugh and perhaps cry through
some of the trials and opportunities that may arise between now and then. But beyond that, I am confident that my mind
cannot even comprehend the incredible harvest that He has in mind as I pursue
Him and seek to find joy in this journey He has laid before me.
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love Him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
Thanks once again God for being so BIG and surprising me
with your infinite Greatness and Goodness.
No turning back, no turning back!!
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