PARTAKING IN THE HARVEST

Post date: Oct 18, 2012 5:13:15 AM

God has just two desires for all His children (1) to bless them always with the very best of all His resources in all creation, and (2) to correct them whenever they go off the right path of life. God takes no pleasure in punishing anyone in any situation, besides; no one can survive the punishment of God. Never regard the abuses, pains, delays, denials in your daily struggles as a sign of any punishment from God for any misdeed. Our struggle in life is not a punishment, but a path to position us for the good we deserve in Him. Every struggle, every pain, and every denial that God permits in our lives has a purpose and a desire. God did not take the children of Israel through the wilderness in vain. At every point in time, God showed up to deliver and to bless them. In every battle He was there to lead them and to give them success.

Just as He had a desire in mind for them then, He also has a desire for you today, despite your struggles. Just as He had a purpose in taking them through that route, He also has a purpose in mind for taking you through this route today. Just as He enabled the children of Israel to succeed in their wilderness days, He will also enable you to succeed in your struggles today.  

“And you shall [earnestly] remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to prove you, to know what was in your [mind and] heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you recognize and personally know that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not become old upon you nor did your feet swell these forty years. Know also in your [minds and] hearts that, as a man disciplines and instructs his son, so the Lord your God disciplines and instructs you. So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and [reverently] fear Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills, A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey; A land in which you shall eat food without shortage and lack nothing in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for all the good land which He has given you. Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His precepts, and His statutes which I command you today.” Deuteronomy 8:2-11

Every success we will ever achieve, every dream we will ever fight to fulfill and our daily desires for better days in life, are in the hands of our Lord Jesus Christ, and He is willing to give us a full measure of the success we deserve. Your struggles will not end in vain; your heart desires which are according to His plans for your life will surely be fulfilled. He does not take anyone on an aimless journey or aimless struggle in every situation. By God’s grace, you will have a sweet harvest as you continue trusting your God. You will partake in the harvest:

“Consider this: What soldier at any time serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of the fruit of it? Who tends a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock? Do I say this only on human authority and as a man reasons? Does not the Law endorse the same principle? For in the Law of Moses it is written, You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn. Is it [only] for oxen that God cares? Or does He speak certainly and entirely for our sakes? [Assuredly] it is written for our sakes, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher ought to thresh in expectation of partaking of the harvest.” 1 Corinthians 9:7-10. Someone is here to pray with you. Click here