Sowing and Reaping
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Matthew 10:23
.] Let the messengers of truth pass on to another field.
Here may be a more favorable opportunity for work, and they may
successfully sow the seed of truth and reap the harvest. The report
of their success will find its way to the place where the work was
apparently unsuccessful, and the next messenger of truth who goes
there will be more favorably received.
The seed sown in trial and discouragement will be seen to have
life and vitality. Adversity, sorrow, loss of property, the changes of
God’s providence, recall with vivid distinctness the words spoken
years before by the faithful servant of God. The seed sown springs up
and bears fruit.
God has need of wise men and women who will labor earnestly
to accomplish the work committed to them. He will use them as His
instruments in the conversion of souls. Some will sow, and some will
reap the harvest of the seed sown. Let every one do his best to improve
his talents, that God may use him either as a sower or as a reaper.
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