"Learning a Lesson" -2

"I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." (Psalms 37:25) Looking at some spiritual application to this verse, we can apply the passage of Scripture that I closed with yesterday, which had to do with sowing and reaping, and our duty as a believer to spread the gospel message upon the earth. To put it quite simply, the first portion of the verse applies to years of serving God, decades if you will, in which those years of serving were in casting out seeds and sowing faithfully God's word among family, friends, and even strangers. As Jesus was indicating to His disciples in John 4:35-38, not everyone reaps, but he who does reap, reaps where others have sown; therefore, we are not to get discouraged for having not reaped, but should be encouraged by the harvest that will come by that which we sow. In the case of that application, "the righteous forsaken" would apply to the fruit that is harvested being applied to the righteous, even though he may not have actually been the one who did the harvest; but because he planted the seeds, he gets to share in the rewards. As for "his seed begging bread", God is the one who is responsible for making the harvest, for He is the Husbandman (John 15:1), and it is His Word that is being sown; therefore, because that which is sown is the Word of God, it does not require to be fed because it is food of It's own, producing more and more fruit of It's kind. We simply do not know how far or how wide the seeds that we sow will spread; nor do we need to worry if we do not actually see the harvest from sowing them; but chances are, by the time you are old, you will get a glimpse at some fruit that has been produced... "For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: It shall accomplish that which I please, and It shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent It." (Isaiah 55:10 & 11)