In Barry Black's new book, The Blessing of Adversity, he tells the story of some office workers in Chicago who got tired of their vocation and decided to become farmers.
Leaving the high-rise behind, they purchased some acreage in the lower part of the state, and declared to all they were farmers.
But they never plowed or planted. When October came around and the neighborhood farmers began to bring their harvest to the farmer's market, all these folks from Chicago had was forty acres of goldenrod and wildflowers.
"Where's the corn?" they asked. "What went wrong?"
I'll tell you what went wrong . . . these worn-down white collar workers from Chicago made a tragic mistake of expecting a harvest without sowing seed, and disciplined work.
Jesus tells us the parable of the sower who sowed seed. Some fell on fertile soil and produced abundantly. Other seed fell on rocky soil, or among the thorns.
Planting your seed is good soil that produces fruit is key to our giving above the tithes that belong to our local church.
Today, you will learn how you can plant seed in fertile soil to help Dr. James D. Leggett raise the funds for a new dormitory on the new campus at Holmes Bible College in Greenville, SC. Your investment will bring dividends not only now, but in many years to come as students graduate and go out from these halls of learning to bless the world.
You will see photos of this dormitory in various stages of progress in this Special Hugh's News Edition devoted to Holmes Bible College. It is being built on faith, but faith that is activated needs money, too. That is where you and I come it. May I encourage you to plant some seed of the money God has entrusted you with, to make this vision a reality. We want this building paid in full before it is completed. Give now as God directs you. Let us lift up the hands of Dr. James D. Leggett, our president.
Posted on
Fri, April 29, 2011
by Hugh Morgan