There was a small problem in the recording so some of the introduction is missing. My apologises.
Introduction:
On the 29th October 1941, Winston Churchill was asked to give a speech to a group of discouraged Londoners in the war. In part of his speech, he uttered these words:
- "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
-- The truth is that all the way through World War 2, there was always temptations to throw in the towel, to give up.
--- They did not know when the end of the war was coming, but they continued to fight without weariness and gained the reward of their labour.
In this passage, we have an unseen harvest to come if we do not lose heart, grow weary, and give up in the well-doing which God has called us to do.
-- The problem we have is that we cannot see when our harvest is going to come. The phrase, "in due season" = set occasion/time = in God's timing. We do not know how great our reward will be. We do not know how long we have to labour until our harvest comes.
--- But this we do know. That he who does not sow the seed, or tend to the seed sown, loses his harvest. If you do not sow, nothing grows. If you don't tend, the weeds rise up and choke the crops of the nutrients they needs. Animals come along and take your harvest.
---- The harvest comes to those who sow, and tend to the seed sown until the day that they can reap. The tendency is to grow weary in doing well, but IF WE ARE TO REAP, WE MUST LABOUR AND NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP! |
