Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. James 5:7
Taxes in the evening, bad news from afar, a bill to pay this morning, prayers for the new special need and for all the usual needs, and the world turns around once more. I haven't used many verses from James that I can recall, but here is one about the patience we need to go day by day with the trials and sorrows of a day walking with Christ our Lord.
While there are many farming content providers on YouTube, I can only follow 4 or 5 of them before I'm spending too much time sitting in front of the screen. The methods have changed on the surface from the days when our Lord Jesus told His parables to the multitudes, but they are also basically the same. Clear the land, till the land, plant the seeds, a little weeding when possible, but then wait. Irrigation systems have been tried since way back when, but the best watering method for the crops is still God's provision of rain, and then more waiting. A farmer waits many more days than he or she plants. And then, harvest, and long days with as much rushing as things can be rushed in farming to get the crop into the barn. Farming with its period of waiting between planting and harvest remains one of our best metaphors for the age we are in now. Day by day we wait upon the return of our Lord Jesus. And at times it is not easy at all to wait on the Lord.
Faith in Christ is our answer. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, including waiting!
Love in Christ,Bucky
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