We'll Weep Over a Crop. We Won't Weep Over a Soul

Psalm 126:5 — "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."

A farmer will pour sweat into ground that gives nothing back for months. And when a flood takes the whole crop, he weeps over it. Loses sleep over it. Then goes back out the next season because the harvest is worth it.

When's the last time you wept over a lost person?

Jesus told his disciples the fields were white. Ready. People all around them — Samaritans, Gentiles, the kind of people the disciples had already written off — prepared to hear the gospel.

Ecclesiastes 11 says he that observeth the wind shall not sow. There's always a reason not to go. Too windy. Wrong season. Wrong person. Wrong neighborhood.

But the farmer who wants a harvest doesn't wait for perfect conditions. He works through it because the future crop matters more than his present comfort.

You already labor hard. The question isn't whether you're willing to work.

Do you care enough about souls to weep over them?

Because the sowing that produces a harvest starts with tears.

You'll weep over a lot of things. Hear the full sermon on John 4 that started this one.

Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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