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OUR GOD IS FAITHFUL

God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.

1 Corinthians 1:9 

Some years ago, we had prepared our lands, planted our maize, and waited for the rains to come. The rain fell, and the seed germinated. But instead of coming up about twenty to thirty centimetres apart, the plants were over a metre apart. That spelt disaster, for our plant population had been halved. I didn’t know what to do. I watched that crop every day for nine months. I was desperate. 

But one day the Holy Spirit spoke into my heart, “Stop looking at the gaps between the plants and start looking at the corn.” I looked. Those cobs were twice the normal size! The kernels of corn were four times the normal size! I realised God was doing something special. That year we experienced the worst drought. If the plants were twenty centimetres apart, I would have had no crop because the plants wouldn’t have borne any fruit. But because we had the one-metre gap, we had incredible sized cobs and we were able to reap an amazing crop. 

God is faithful. He takes our failures and turns them into successes. That’s what God wants to do for you today. He wants to take good seed and plant it in your heart so that you can bear a crop yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. It doesn’t matter what you did yesterday. The disasters of yesterday do not count. 

The Lord says it’s a new day, a new beginning. Plough that field deep, plant it with good seed and you will reap a beautiful crop. 

Dear Lord, plant Your seed in my heart today. Make the soil fertile and receptive so that I can produce a bountiful crop for You. Amen