When The Plowing Gets Tough, Be Encouraged

Sometimes just digging a small hole in hard ground seems almost impossible. The Lord may have you spiritually plowing some hard soil. What an honor to be given a Kingdom assignment that has the potential to make soil that was unreceptive and futile, become an area of great spiritual harvest for our King!

In the physical, plowing is the time to exercise some serious muscle and make a way for seeds to be planted. Spiritually speaking, plowing is the time to exercise faith muscles, because once we’re enjoying the harvest, faith has become sight. 2 Timothy 2:6 and Proverbs 20:4 remind us that the hardworking farmer partakes of the crops, while the lazy farmer won’t plow and has to beg during harvest. Let’s not be lazy in our efforts to be yoked to Christ, because Deuteronomy 22:10 says,

“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.” 

If we are plowing with one foot in Christ and one in the world, we will reap futility. Unless He is plowing through us, we are plowing in vain. And according to Job 4:8 and Luke 9:62, we want to be sure we’re not looking back while pressing forward, or plowing iniquity that will have us sowing and reaping trouble. We want to be sure we are plowing in obedience to the Lord. 

So, thank you for plowing and not giving up! It benefits not just you, but all of us around you. And most importantly it blesses our Savior, who is Lord of the Harvest.

“Does he not certainly speak for our sake?

It was written for our sake,

because the plowman should plow in hope

and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.”

1 Corinthians 9:10