What Are We Growing

DEVOTION HEBREWS WHAT ARE WE GROWING Heb 6:7-8 7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. 8 But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned. NIV Could this be any clearer? Yes, it is an analogy, but the truth of it is right there out in the open for all to understand. We are the land which receives the rain provided by God and we need to be producing a useful crop for the farmer, for God, for His Kingdom. The crop does not belong to the field, but to the farmer. What gifts and blessings that God has bestowed upon us, we must use it to produce something useful for Him. Are we wasting His blessings using them for our own benefit? Yes, God desires us to live in the Land of milk and Honey. Yes, God loves to give us the desires of our heart, but what are our desires? Are they to be useful to His kingdom, or to be a field full of thorns and thistles? It would appear that if we, the land which God is blessing with the rain, with His gifts, do not produce good crops, useful to Him, and simply let all His blessing go to waste, spending our time on our self, we are but a field of thorns and thistles. We only have to see what the result of that is to determine to be a field producing great useful crops for our Lord and King. We cannot afford to allow the field to go to waste. We cannot allow ourselves to be useless to the Kingdom of God. We must find exactly what kind of crop God desires to grow in us. Each of us has a particular type of crop which God, as the farmer, has planted within us. We do not determine what kind of crop we grow, but He does. We merely need to find out what it is. We need to allow Him to plant, water, grow and harvest that crop within us. We are His field, the crop belongs to Him. Perhaps those people who refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are the fields of thorns and thistles. But it could be possible that we believers could produce that kind of wasteful crop, if we are not allowing God to plant His crop in us. If we decide want we do, where we want to do it, and how we do it, then we are acting as our own farmer, and unfortunately all we can plant is thorns and thistles. We need to allow God to have complete control over the planting process. He needs to plow and till the soil, cultivate it, making it ready for planting. He needs to decide what to plant and then fertilize it, herbicide it, to keep the thorns and thistles from growing. He tends the field and when the time comes, He harvests and benefits from all His work in the field. What are we growing?