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Posted on Sat, Oct 2, 2004
Rev. Ewings Harvest Letter To Castlederg Circuit
Dear friends,
It’s hard to believe the Harvest season is upon us again. Many of our farmers are busying themselves gleaning the harvest from the fields and storing up for winter feeding. Other businesses too have enjoyed God’s good favour as customers continue to come through their doors. Our homes also have been blessed as we are able to work with our hands to earn wages which benefit both home and Church alike. Life has a habit of mixing sadness with goodness, but in spite of the difficulties and disappointments that mingle in the cocktail of life, I believe that again we can stop for a moment and give God thanks for his faithful goodness to each one of us.
That’s what harvest time is about. It’s a time when we do two things:- Firstly we take stock - Are we the same person we where twelve months ago? The answer to this question will be very revealing, because it will tell us what God has done for us at a very personal level and as Church. Then secondly we remember the goodness of God especially in a world that seems to be hell bent on evil. I write at a time when hardly a continent isn’t mentioned on the news for some disaster or other. But God remains faithful. He is the One from whom we get our real direction and purpose and He is the One who made it possible for us to worship Him with our lives and corporately as Church. Right throughout the pages of the Bible we can find this theme.
After God saved Noah and his family along with all the animals and renewed the earth through flood He made a promise. He said, ‘As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease’ (Gen.8:22). In response to Noah’s offering, God was pleased to establish the law of seedtime and harvest. Actually, this simply continued a principle built into creation.
When God created the first living thing, He gave it the ability to grow and multiply. How? Through the seed. Your life and mine began by the seed principle. Every act of your life since your birth has operated by the seed principle - springing from good seeds or bad seeds you have sown - whether or not you were consciously aware of your seed planting doesn’t really matter. The fact is that we sow, for good or ill.
In this promise we are assured that if we have God in our lives we will have a positive influence to bear or sow. God is faithful, but this promise reveals something else that I think is extremely important: the only way for any of us to realise our true potential and give reason and purpose to why we are here is sourced and found in the faithfulness of God. Not until we genuinely and earnestly cry out to him can we ever know in a real sense the richness of God in our lives.
May you truly realise your full potential this harvest time and may Almighty God fill you to overflowing with all the riches of his grace.
Mervyn
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