DEVOTION – SUNDAY,
AUGUST 5, 2012
“Lord of the Harvest”
BY
ALISTAIR BEGG
All the
year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; when we are
asleep and when we awaken, His mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a
legacy of darkness, but God never ceases to shine upon His children with beams
of love. Like a river, His loving-kindness is always flowing, with a fullness
as inexhaustible as His own nature. Like the atmosphere that constantly
surrounds the earth and is always ready to support the life of man, the
kindness of God surrounds all His creatures; in it, as in their element, they
live and move and have their being.
Just as the
sun on summer days gladdens us with warmer and brighter rays than at other
times, and as rivers in certain seasons are swollen by the rain, and as the air
itself is sometimes filled with fresher breezes than at other times, so is it
with the mercy of God; it has its golden hours, its overflowing days, when the
Lord magnifies His grace before the children of men. The
joyful days of harvest are a special season of abundant favor.
It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then generously
bestowed; it is the mellow season when we enjoy all that we had hoped for. The
joy of harvest is great. The reapers are happy to fill their arms with the
abundance of heaven.
The
psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these
crowning mercies merit a crowning thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let
our spirits remember,meditate , and think upon this goodness
of the Lord. Then let us praise Him with
our lips and honor and magnify His name who is the source of
all this goodness. Let us glorify God by offering our gifts to
His cause. A practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to
the Lord of the harvest.
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