Sowing The Seed Of The Kingdom
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesIn August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the US Gulf Coast and displaced an estimated 1.3 million households. With cities and towns evacuated, homes destroyed, and jobs gone, people relocated to communities in every state. Because Christians are not immune to the storms of life, it’s likely they found themselves in places they never expected to live.
Yet many of these same people whose hopes and plans were shattered by Katrina would also bring God’s love to others across the United States. Like the early Christians who were forced out of Jerusalem by persecution, it could be said of them:
“Those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the Word” (Acts 8:4).
While none of us would choose this kind of financial loss and disruption, would we see it as an opportunity to share the saving gospel of Christ with others?
The apostle Peter letter reminded Christians who had been scattered among the nations to “be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15).
If we are ever uprooted, let’s be willing to sow the seed of the kingdom wherever we go.
Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the morning bright and fair?
Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the heat of the noonday’s glare?
Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
In the still and solemn night?
Are you sowing the seed of the kingdom, brother,
For a harvest pure and white?
For the harvest is coming on,
And the reapers’ work will soon be done;
Will your sheaves be many?
will you garner any,
For the gathering at the harvest home. —Fred A. Fillmore
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