Verse of the Day 1/1

 

Verse of the Day 1/1

 

Ecclesiastes 11:6  Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don't know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both. New Living Translation (NLT)

 

Happy New Year everyone!

 

I ended the year yesterday reading in the "Wisdom Literature" in Psalms through Ecclasiastes in Ecclesiastes 11.  It struck me that it would be fitting to look at to begin the new year.  In today's society it is probably a small percentage of the population that are actually farmers and the verse can easily be lost on the rest of us.  All of us are familiar with images of the cornfields of late summer or the amber waves of grain in the wheat fields here in the U.S.  These don't just happen randomly.  The farmer must have tilled the land and planted the seed early in the year and those images are the result of his work throughout the year (along with God's sending the rain and providing the sun.)

 

So it is with us spiritually as we head into the new year.  If we are to bear spiritual fruit, seeds will need to be planted earlier in the year.  Perhaps it starts today with beginning a Bible reading plan or deciding to start a prayer journal.  We don't know now where this will lead us, but we can trust that with the Lord's leading, like sending sunshine and rain to the farm fields, so He will do with the events of our lives. 

 

 

David Jeremiah writes, "Now is the very time to draw near to your God. The longer you wait, the less you will desire Him, and the more elusive He will prove to be. Now is the time when you will make the pivotal decisions on which your whole future will turn. Please don't make them without your Lord."  

 

Get with God.

Get with Him daily as you spend time together.

Get with Him through His Word.

Get with Him in service and with His other children.

Get with Him and honor Him.

 

Don't let God appear to be "elusive".  Seek Him early, seek Him often, day by day and see what the year will bring as a harvest for Him.  I'll close with the words to the Fernando Ortega song, "Give Me Jesus".

 

In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise
In the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

 

And when I am alone
Oh, and when I am alone
And when I am alone, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

 

And when I come to die
Oh, and when I come to die
And when I come to die, give me Jesus

Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
You can have all this world
But give me Jesus

--   In Christ,  Mike    Folllow the Verse of the Day blog at http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com  Ephesians 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,  in accordance with the riches of God's grace.  NIV

Ecclesiastes 11 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Value of Diligence

11 Cast your bread upon the waters,
For you will find it after many days.
² Give a serving to seven, and also to eight,
For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.

³ If the clouds are full of rain,
They empty themselves upon the earth;
And if a tree falls to the south or the north,
In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
⁴ He who observes the wind will not sow,
And he who regards the clouds will not reap.

⁵ As you do not know what is the way of the ^[a]wind,
Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
⁶ In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.