The Patience of the Farmer
August 12
The Patience of the Farmer
Matthew (Tolu) Olowoyeye
Founder · The Berean
James 5:7
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it…
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James reaches for the perfect picture of patience: the farmer. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it. The farmer cannot hurry the harvest. He cannot pull the wheat up faster by tugging at it, cannot shout the fruit into ripening. He plants, he waters, and then he waits, through long, quiet weeks when nothing visible is happening, because he knows that good fruit keeps its own slow time.
This is a needed picture for an impatient age, and a needed lesson for this very month. The fruit of the Spirit ripens like the fruit of the earth: slowly, hiddenly, on God's timetable, not ours. We want instant character, overnight transformation, and we grow frustrated when patience itself is slow to grow. But you cannot microwave fruit. The farmer's secret is not frantic effort but trustful waiting, doing his part and then leaving the timing to God and the soil.
Be patient, then, with God's slow work in your circumstances, with others, and with yourself. The fruit is coming. Give it time.
Take Into The Day
Where you are frustrated by slowness today, in a situation, in another person, in your own growth, adopt the farmer's patience. Do your part, then trust the timing to God, refusing to tug at the wheat.
Prayer
Lord, give me the patience of the farmer, who waits through quiet weeks for fruit he cannot hurry. Where I am frustrated by slowness, in others or in myself, teach me to do my part and trust Your timing. The fruit is coming; help me wait. Amen.
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