Tuesday after Sexagesima Sunday
Posted on February 22, 2022 by under
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:1-11 (NKJV)
11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2 Give a serving to seven, and also to eight, for you do not know what evil will be on the earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; And if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Devotion
When a farmer sows his seed he does not know what will spring up. Yet, in his determination, he still tends his fields. When you give charitably to others you have no way of knowing how beneficial your donation will be. Parents who plan to have a child cannot know whether their child will be born healthy or with complications. Even when we give witness of our faith to others, we do not know whether people will receive it in faith or reject it in unbelief. But, if we wait until we know the outcome, we would never act. Instead, we should trust the gracious will of God to work all things out for good.
The farmer sows his seed in hope for a good harvest. We do good to our neighbor in the hope of helping him overcome evil. Parents still beget children in the hope of raising them in the Christian faith. Regardless of our positions in life, we Christians are encouraged to move forward in life and fulfill the calling that we have in Christ. We should not let the circumstances of the world or the turbulent culture in which we live deter us from doing the will of God. Instead, we remember what St. Paul writes to the Colossians, “Whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ” (Col. 3:23-24).
Prayer: O Lord God, Who seest that we put not our trust in anything that we do: Mercifully grant that by Thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
