The sower went forth sowing... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it ...; you provide their grain. ... The valleys also are covered with grain. - Give us seed, that we may live, and not die.
Psalm 65:9.13; Genesis 47:19

The sower went forth sowing;
The seed in secret slept
Through weeks of faith and patience
Till out the green blade crept;
And warmed by golden sunshine
And fed by silver rain,
At last the fields were whitened
To harvest once again.
Oh, praise the heavenly Sower
Who gave the fruitful seed,
And watched and watered duly,
And ripened for our need.

Behold, the heavenly Sower
Goes forth with better seed,
The word of sure salvation
Our souls to God to lead.
Here on this earth ‘tis scattered,
Our spirits are the soil;
Then let an ample fruitage
Repay His pain and toil.
Oh, beauteous is the harvest
Wherein all goodness thrives,

And this the true thanksgiving,
The firstfruit of our lives.
One day the heavenly Sower
Shall reap where He hath sown,
And come again rejoicing,
And with Him bring His own;
And then the fan of judgment
Shall winnow from His floor
The chaff into the furnace
That flameth evermore.

Today's reading: Judges 17:1-13 · Psalm 74:1-12