Psalm 126
Sow Like a Hard-Working Farmer!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, August 29.
“Bringing in the Sheaves” is a classic gospel song, written by Knowles Shaw in 1874, which quotes today’s psalm. Psalm 126:5-6 provided him with the name and inspiration, “Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.” A sheaf is a bundle of grain stalks, often used in the Bible to symbolize abundance and prosperity, and, in this case, the promise that we will reap what we sow when we work hard to scatter the good seed of God’s Word (Galatians 6:6-9).
While the historical context for today’s psalm is a return from great suffering, possibly from the seventy years of Babylonian exile (Psalm 126:1), the promise is to all who trust in God for rescue and deliverance. There are many things in this life from which we need to be rescued, but all of them pale in comparison to our total need for redemption through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. The sowing of this seed to all the nations is the work of every follower of Jesus, as Paul exhorted his protégé in 2 Timothy 2:6, “The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops” (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:10). Truly, as every farmer knows, you will reap what you sow. This is true in the spiritual, as much as it is in the natural.
God bless you!
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