God Desires Us to Break Up Our Hearts, Sow Righteousness, and Reap Mer…
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God Desires Us to Break Up Our Hearts, Sow Righteousness, and Reap Mercy ㅡ
“Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.” (Hosea 10:12)
Throughout the parable of the sower, Christ represents the different results of the sowing as depending upon the soil.
In every case the sower and the seed are the same. Thus He teaches that if the word of God fails of accomplishing its work in our hearts and lives, the reason is to be found in ourselves.
But the result is not beyond our control. True, we cannot change ourselves; but the power of choice is ours, and it rests with us to determine what we will become.
The wayside, the stony-ground, the thorny-ground hearers need not remain such.
The Spirit of God is ever seeking to break the spell of infatuation that holds men absorbed in worldly things, and to awaken a desire for the imperishable treasure.
It is by resisting the Spirit that men become inattentive to or neglectful of God’s word.
They are themselves responsible for the hardness of heart that prevents the good seed from taking root, and for the evil growths that check its development.
The garden of the heart must be cultivated. The soil must be broken up by deep repentance for sin.
Poisonous, Satanic plants must be uprooted.
The soil once overgrown by thorns can be reclaimed only by diligent labor.
So the evil tendencies of the natural heart can be overcome only by earnest effort in the name and strength of Jesus.
The Lord bids us by His prophet, “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.” “Sow to yourselves in righteousness; reap in mercy.” (Jeremiah 4:3; Hosea 10:12).
This work He desires to accomplish for us, and He asks us to co-operate with Him.
(Christ’s Object Lessons 56)
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