But wait there is more, and more....

Once again, I would love to thank all of my beautiful readers of this blog!! May you be blessed every time you take a moment to read, and if you happen to gain something be sure to pass it along. Today is Sunday, and the church service was awesome as usual. It wasn't the best that I’ve been to here lately. Although, Brother Wiggins brought forth a mighty word from God. I am looking forward to sharing parts of it with you, because I think that America needs a word from God like we received this morning.    Actually, the entire word needs to not only hear that word, but let it settle in our hearts.

The basis of the message is found in the book of Hosea, chapter 10, ans verse 12. 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.

This is a mighty verse found in Hosea. The prophet Hosea was talking to the Israelite people who were mainly farmers. They understood the concept of sowing and reaping. They knew that what ever seed that you placed in the ground it would produce a harvest of the kind of seed that was planted. They also knew if they wanted a crop of corn, that it would never happen by planting watermelon seeds.

The first part of the verse says to sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. How in the world do we sow anything to ourselves, and what is righteousness?

When we sow to ourselves it means to make a habit of the way we act and treat others. Change our thinking process, and allow it to change our actions. Actually, we are sowing righteousness, and that simply put is doing the things that are pleasing in the sight of God. In Websters dictionary, the 1828 version, I really like what he said about righteousness. I am only going to include a short version of all that he said, "It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion."

Sowing righteousness to ourselves not only will make us better acting, well behaved people, it will also boost our self esteem greatly. You will know that Father is well pleased with you, and it will make you want to please Him all the more because of it.

Part two is the reaping benefit. We sow in righteousness, and we reap in mercy.    HOLD ON NOW!!     Let me get this straight.     Are you telling me that we change the way that we act and think. Doing this will make us more favorable with our friends, family, and the people that we meet, and make Father happier with us, and we get another benefit of mercy added to our lives?    Now that is simply unreal!!

Once again I think that Mr. Webster has a great definition of the word mercy. 1. "That benevolence, mildness or tenderness of heart which disposes a person to overlook injuries, or to treat an offender better than he deserves; the disposition that tempers justice, and induces an injured person to forgive trespasses and injuries, and to forbear punishment, or inflict less than law or justice will warrant. In this sense, there is perhaps no word in our language precisely synonymous with mercy. That which comes nearest to it is grace. It implies benevolence, tenderness, mildness, pity or compassion, and clemency, but exercised only towards offenders. Mercy is a distinguishing attribute of the Supreme Being."

It is kind of long, but Mr. Webster could get long winded when the need was called for. I personally think that he did a wonderful job. I also know that I need a lot of mercy in my life, because I am very prone to get off track, and do something that is not pleasing to Father.

Breaking up the fallow ground is the dirt clods that remain in the field after it is plowed. (As kids we loved to get into a freshly plowed field, and break up the clods that were left. Except we dis it by doing what we called having a dirt clod battle.)  They need to be broken up so the seed that is planted can take root to grow. This is a representation of your heart.

It is important to have you heart clean of anything that is inside of it, that Jesus can't recognize as His. We all have things inside of our heart that place limitation of the blessing of Father in our lives. It is a good thing that every time that we come before the Lord to honor him with our praise and prayers, that we ask  this of Him . Search my heart Lord Jesus, and expose anything that you find that is not of you. Confession is a great way to break up the fallow ground also. The Word says that we should confess our faults to one another.

I have only got through half of the verse, and I am running out of room to share with you. The second half is really very simple. It is time to seek the Lord!!     It is always time to seek the Lord, because He is so good.      It should be our mission everyday to do just that, seek Him, and enter into His presence.       Being in the presence of Jesus is the most wonderful thing that we will ever experience, but wait there is more, and more, and more, and even more..........

…........Much Love