SERIOUS THOUGHTS

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1476, 7 February 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

SERIOUS THOUGHTS

SEEDS OP LIGHT. The figure of the seed is very common in the Scriptures. All natural life begins in germs and develops into fullness of form and strength. The same law prevails in the spiritual world. The Kingdom of Heaven begins in a heart as a very little seed and grows until it fills all the life. Every word of God is a seed which encloses a living germ, plant it in the soil of faith and prayer and ib will grow. There is one passage, however, in which tho figure of the seed is very striking : ' Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.' ' Light' stands for all spiritual blessings, and the thought is that our blessings are sown just, as wheat, grains and flower seeds are sown, and that we gather the harvest from this sowing as we pluck flowers from garden or wild wood or reap the wheat from the Gelds. God gives us oar blessings not full-bloomed, but as seeds. Every duty that comes to our hands in the common days is a seed of light which God has sown for us. Some seeds are dark and rough as we look upon them, so there are duties that have in them no promise of joy or pleasure as they first present themselves to us. They look hard and repulsive, and we shrink from doing them, but everyone knows that there is in the faithful doing of everything a strange secret of joy, and the harder the duty the richer is the sense of gladness that follows its performance. Thus every duty is a seed of light To evade it or to neglect it is to miss a blessing, to do it is to huve the seed burst into beauty in the heart of tho doer. We need to learn this lesson. We are continually coming up to stern and severe things in our life's path, and ofttimes we are tempted to decline doing them because they appear hard and costly. If we yield to such temptations we shall reap no joy from God's sowing of light for us, but if we take up the hard task, whatever it is, we shall always find a blessing. Rev. J. 11. Miller.—(F.)