Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Faith's Check Book, Daily
Entry
C. H. Spurgeon
Spiritual Sowing
He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:8)
Sowing
looks like a losing business, for we put good corn into the ground never to see
it anymore. Sowing to the Spirit seems a very fanciful, dreamy business; for we
deny ourselves and apparently get nothing for it. Yet if we sow to the Spirit
by studying to live unto God, seeking to obey the will of God, and laying
ourselves out to promote His honor, we shall not sow in vain. Life shall be our
reward, even everlasting life. This we enjoy here as we enter into the
knowledge of God, communion with God, and enjoyment of God. This life flows on
like an ever-deepening, ever-widening river till it bears us to the ocean of
infinite felicity, where the life of God is ours forever and ever.
Let us
not this day sow to our flesh, for the harvest will be corruption, since flesh
always tends that way; but with holy self-conquest let us live for the highest,
purest, and most spiritual ends, seeking to honor our most holy Lord by obeying
His most gracious Spirit. What a harvest will that be when we reap life
everlasting! What sheaves of endless bliss will be reaped! What a festival will
that harvest be! Lord, make us such reapers, for thy Son's sake.
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