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THE SOWER MAGAZINE

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Summer '07
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While I was reading this paragraph from one of Spurgeon’s farm sermons this morning, it dawned on me that some things never change. What he says below is still true today. I saw something else too: What a blessing to be in such a position as always dependent on the Lord, and privy to the beautiful lessons He has for those of us who are farmers and the subsequent growth in Him that can take place on the inside of us if we will learn them. The Word says: “We are God’s building. We are God’s field.”

I have changed some of the words which were slightly antiquated, to make it more understandable.

“The farmer is in a special sense made to see his dependence on God from season to season. He is never done, his labor is never ending, and his hopes are never fulfilled. From the time he sows the seed until the day he sees “the corn in the ear”, he is every hour dependent on the Lord for sunshine and shower; and even when the grain is ready, a stretch of rainy weather will take his harvest from him and leave him downcast at the end. He can never count his profits until he has them in his pocket. This manifest, absolute, daily dependence should help the farmer learn the lesson of faith very thoroughly. He must look up, for where else can he look? He must leave his business in the Lord’s hand, for who else can be his helper? Faith which is tried daily, and tried all day long, has an opportunity to become very strong, and so ouragricultural Christians should be the strongest believers around. They are not necessarily prosperous in a worldly sense, but our hope is that through their adversities, they have learned to look eagerly for the better portion, and to leave all things more strongly in the Lord’s hands. If it be so, the little they have financially would be exchanged for an enlarged heart. If our farmers are wiser men through their bad seasons, they will be better than being richer men".