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o matter what has hap- right, eventually we will be
pened to you in your rewarded!
Nlifetime - even if you have
been abandoned by your spouse God says that as long as the earth
or abused by your parents or hurt remains, there will be “seedtime
by your children or others - if you and harvest” (Genesis 8:22). We
will stay on the narrow path as might paraphrase it like this: “As
God directs you and leave all your long as the earth remains, there
excess fleshly baggage behind, will be seed, time, and harvest.”
you will find the peace, joy, and
fulfilment you seek. As you walk When we walk in God's path, we
through this process, you can must be patient like the farmer,
find comfort in God's promise who plants the seed and expec-
from Isaiah 30:21 to guide you. tantly waits for the harvest. He
looks forward to reaping the
Jesus is the Way, and He has harvest, but he knows that time
shown us the way in which we are will elapse between seed planting
to walk. The Lord has sent upon and harvest. He does not allow
us His Holy Spirit to lead and that God-ordained process to
guide us in the way we are to go, frustrate him.
the narrow way that leads to life
and not the broad way that leads God promises in Isaiah 30:21 that
to destruction. “your ears will hear a word
behind you, saying, This is the
Whatever happens, we must keep way; walk in it.” If you continue to
walking in the ways of the Lord. walk in the way the Lord has
Galatians 6:9 encourages us: prescribed for you in His Word
“And let us not lose heart and and by His Spirit, you will enjoy
grow weary and faint in acting great blessings, both in this life
nobly and doing right, for in due and in eternity.
time and at the appointed season
we shall reap, if we do not loosen So keep walking the narrow path
and relax our courage and faint.” that leads to life - life in all its
fullness and abundance!
The Bible does not promise that
when we do right we will reap the [The Everyday Life Bible, Notes
rewards immediately. But it does and Commentary by Joyce
assure us that if we keep doing Meyer, Faith Words, 2006].
