A Letter from the Pastor

 

In the fields all around us now we are seeing the harvest of cotton and peanuts.  Well some of us are seeing it while some of you are actually doing the work of harvesting.  Sometimes I loose sight of how much farming has changed in our country over the years.  However, I am aware than my grandfather began farming 80 years ago and involved a pair of mules.  We don't see too many people working with mules these days trying to make a living farming.

Farm equipment and techniques have certainly changed over the years; however some things have not changed.  For instance if you want a harvest of peanuts, you have to at least start by planting peanuts.  Well that's obvious isn't it?  That is exactly what I like about so much of the Bible.  Simple facts about harvesting what you plant of reaping what you sow get applied to our spiritual lives and become simple spiritual truths.

Paul reminds us in his letter to the Galatians that we reap what we sow.  He makes it pretty plain that when we sow to please our sinful nature our harvest will be destruction.  On the other hand if we sow to please the Spirit of God we shall reap the harvest of eternal life.  That is truly an abundant harvest so in the words of Paul in Galatians 6:9 "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

Blessings,

Rev. Jimmy Cook                          10/1/2008