Read Isaiah 55
Key Passage: In the same way that the rain falls, like snow from heaven, and doesn’t go up without watering the earth and making it produce growth to provide seeds for the farmer and bread for the table, my Word will also go from my mouth. It won’t return to me without accomplishing what I want, and it will meet with success wherever I send it. -Isaiah 55:10-11
During the nurturing process of winter, I watch and wait in order to see what the land will produce in the spring. Through the long winter months, I look out my bedroom window and see a beautiful blanket of snow covering the ground. Contemplating the process of nature, I patiently wait to see what is to be revealed in the next season as the ground is being nourished underneath the snow. Autumn left many, fallen leaves to die and decay. As winter fades, the snow and leaves become water and nutrients replenishing the soil.
The same can be compared to our spiritual lives. Just as the process of nature continues and the various seasons appear, so does various seasons of our lives. With much prayer and meditation, God’s Word can provide the nutrition we need as the Word infiltrates our lives. During moments of our missionary journeys, we may feel drained and stripped of everything. But God’s Word replenishes our soul as the leaves do the soil. God makes us ready and prepared to work in the harvest fields.
Path Application: Let us pray that when people see our lives that they see purified and cleansed fields as white as snow because of Jesus. Pray for your field of service no matter the stage of harvest. Stay in the Word so that you stay in season.
Walk Farther:
1. How often do you spend time in God’s Word? How could you deepen that time?
2. How could you compare your own spiritual life to nature’s seasons?
3. What are some ways you could be an encouragement to someone experiencing winter in their spiritual walk?
-L.Burch, A Woman’s Path to God, path 42
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