Psalm 65:10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers… 1. SPRING IS THE SEASON OF RENEWAL — such is the aim of the Church — to renew by God's grace spiritually, the face of the earth. And to do this, first, by a prior change within. No outward work without that can avail. II. SPRING IS THE SEASON OF SEED TIME, of preparation, of promise. But what is all our Church work but simply the casting in of seed. Now is not harvest. Are we wondering that after nearly two thousand years, the Church should be still almost at the beginning of her sacred enterprise, and that we still have to wait? Perhaps it is not wonderful if we think what the preparation means, and how it has had to be carried on. III. SPRING IS A SEASON OF DELAYS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS. And so it is in our spiritual work. But be of good cheer; the harvest will, must, come. (J. G. Rogers, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.WEB: You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. |
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