Good Morning Friends,
“This is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: ‘Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done -- burn with no one to quench it.’” (Jeremiah 4:3-4)
The people of Judah had unplowed ground in their lives. Those are the places in which a person has hardened himself to what the Lord wants to do in that area of his life. He’s unwilling to allow the Lord to work because it’s painful, or perhaps because he knows it would mean giving up something in which he finds pleasure.
Many people have unplowed ground in their lives. Probably you and I do now. It may be an area of sin that we are harboring, unwilling to acknowledge it to the Lord because that would mean we would have to change. It might be some area of service the Lord is calling us to that we are steadfastly refusing to consider. It might be a person God is asking us to talk to about Him and we are unwilling because of fear, pride, or any other reason.
Unplowed ground can’t produce fruit. Seed can’t even be planted in it. The soil can’t be penetrated without a plow. And the plow remains under our control. God won’t plow the hard places for us. And God won’t force us to plow them, either. If they are going to be opened to the Lord’s work, it will require our cooperation.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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