The Tractor

As I was reading Genesis 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." I had a picture of a tractor pulling a plough as I looked I saw God driving the tractor and the plough was churning up the ground making long narrow grooves in the ground. The ground was being disturbed ready for planting.

I was reminded of Psalms 65:9-13 "You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the desert overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing".

What a rich harvest your goodness provides!

Then I saw the tractor turn and go in a new direction. I saw the plough breaking up new ground. It was going in places it had not gone before. I believe God is saying to us at Longton Community Church that we have to break new ground and pioneer new things both in our lives and in the community where we live. Sometimes the sowing of the seed will be done with weeping as we break the new ground but we will gather the harvest with joy. God's plan is for the seeds that have been sown over the years, through our prayers and the prayers of others, for those seeds to ripen and be harvested. That many will come to know Jesus as their personal saviour and be fill with God's Spirit.