“Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.”

–Psalm 126:5-6 [NIV]

Jesus once described the heart condition of men as soil. There are soil along path (hard soil), rocky places, soil among thorns, and good soil. The same thing actually happens inside our hearts. Many people do not guard their heart well so that when bad things happen in their lives and hurtful words came, they let their heart’s soil becomes dirty. That is why the Scriptures warn us to guard our heart above all else, for everything we do flows from it (Proverbs 4:23) What happen to the unguarded hearts? They become hardened. They are unable to respond to spiritual matter and being led astray to many other directions that will never give true satisfaction.

Jesus himself taught the Word of God in the midst of hardened and stiff-necked nation, Israel. The Pharisees and the scribes who had learned the Law the whole of their lives were indeed had the hardest hearts. Nevertheless God still love people like them.

Are you having difficulty to witness about Jesus in the midst of hardened people? Are you feeling that it’s hard to love them? The seeds of love are actually is in our hands. God has waiting for us to sow the seeds unto their hearts although it seems useless. As written in Psalm 126, we may sow with tears. It is not easy, but we sow as our act of faith by saying that nothing is impossible to God.

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” –Ezekiel 36:26 [NIV]

The hardened heart is like the desert. The rainfall level is extremely low in the desert. Each time the rain falls can be regarded as miracle to people who live on it. One day, the rain (miracle) will fall unto the hearts of the people you have reached out and the seeds you have sown will have a chance to grow. But if you never sow on their hearts, even if the rain falls, the soil will only be merely empty soil without seeds. Nothing will ever grow out of it.

Many people wait for God’s miracle. They long for their family members to be saved, the bad characters of people we love to be changed, circumstances turn out to be better. But the miracle we actually need actually begin with the change of our hearts. Perhaps the person whom you pray for so long will never change until they die. But it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t work. He has worked in your heart so that you can have a heart full of love and forgiveness no matter what.

Keep waiting in the Lord with hope. There is no heart too hard for God to soften. But he wants to use your hands first to sow his seeds of love.

Sometimes the greatest miracle of all is the one that happens in your heart –Priscilla Shirer

 Blessings,

Leticia