So God made a farmer

"Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you." -Hosea 10:12

The human heart is much like that of the earth's soil. In order for growth to take place, the soil must be soft and fertile. This isn't an easy process, both in farming and the softening of a persons heart. Notice Hosea says, "break up your unplowed ground". To be broken is never comfortable, but always necessary for the refining process of God's love. The fruit of unfailing love can only be produced from an increasingly softened heart. The seasons of life are just like the seasons of weather, with unexpected highs and lows. We are given one instruction to maintain consistency amidst a world that lacks any at all, "seek the Lord until he comes". But it sounds like a lot of work doesn't it? So God made us farmers.

Our Savior Jesus wasn't just a carpenter. He was a farmer. He broke men's hearts when they were too hard for their own good, he sowed seed in all the fertile hearts, he walked miles and paths never before tread, he received help from his father when he was too weak to walk, he smiled when seasons were good and he worked himself to death when they weren't. His children, his brothers and his sisters have since taken on the same profession. You see this farming is a family tradition unlike any other. We need a leader to show us the way, we need teacher to instruct our path, and we need a Savior that will make our work last. So God made a farmer.

"A farmer went out to sow his seed."-Matthew 13:3