Oct. 23
HARVEST OF LIGHT, GLADNESS
"Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in
heart" Ps. 97:11
Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all
hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses, and return an
infinite profit. A holy life is like sowing seed: much is going out,
and apparently it is buried in the soil, never to be gathered up
again. We are mistaken when we look for an immediate harvest; but the
error is very natural, for it seems impossible to bury light. Yet
light is "sown," says the text. It lies latent: none can see it, it is
sown. We are quite sure that it must one day manifest itself.
Full sure are we that the Lord has set a harvest for the sowers of
light, and they shall reap it, each man for himself. Then shall come
their gladness. Sheaves of joy for seeds of light. Their heart was
upright before the Lord, though men gave them no credit for it, but
even censured them: they were righteous, though those about them
denounced them as censorious. They had to wait, as husbandmen wait for
the precious fruits of the earth: but the light was sown for them, and
gladness was being prepared on their behalf by the Lord of the
harvest.
Courage, brothers! we need not be in a hurry. Let us in patience
possess our souls, for soon shall our souls possess light and
gladness.