A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY

4th April 🌷🌷

“… the Lord reigneth: … he shall judge the people righteously” (Psalm 96:10)

Even though men may rise against us we do not turn away from the path of righteousness or from the ministry of preaching the Gospel, because our faith is in God, and we know He reigneth. We have a living God and we know He will judge the people righteously, and therefore no man can harm us. God will judge the world with righteousness and the people with His truth. We have this hope: The Lord will come and judge the earth. We need not take revenge upon those who do injustice to us. The Lord is righteous. He may judge now itself. Otherwise He will do it on the Day of judgment. Let us therefore be faithful in our duties and refuse to take revenge upon anyone.

Through you and me heaven can rejoice if we bring souls to the Lord. The Lord Jesus said, “… there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth” (Luke 15:10). The farmer may not be joyful when he sows the seed, but by faith he goes on sowing expecting that one day he will reap the harvest. Those who labour in the field sowing the seed of God’s Word should rejoice by faithfully believing that their labour will not be in vain and one day they will surely reap an abundant harvest.

Many years ago we went to Guntur for open-air preaching. Suddenly it began to rain. After preaching in one street we wanted to pray before proceeding to another. I hesitated to kneel down as the ground was muddy. I wanted to stand and pray. But then I thought if the clothes get soiled they can be cleaned in the laundry, why should I be ashamed to kneel? So we knelt and prayed. After many years I received a letter. The writer said that God had spoken to him on that day, not by our preaching, but by our kneeling upon the muddy ground in prayer. By faith we must see today what the harvest will be after a long time.