Sowing In Tears

Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

 

Psalm 126:5

Psalm 126:5-6 describes an interesting process that goes against our natural tendencies when we are taken into a difficult period in our lives. Whenever we are hurled into a crisis that brings tears, our tendency is to retreat or recoil in fear and hurt.

 

However, there is a better way that God tells us to handle such times of travail.

"Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him" (Psalm 126:5-6).

 

God is telling us that if we will do what is unnatural for us in these circumstances, and follow the leading of what the Spirit is doing, He will make sure that what we sow in tears will return in joy.

 

This is an important lesson we need to learn when faced with difficult circumstances. Rather than sit back and allow self-pity and discouragement to consume us, we should plant seed during this time.

 

The psalmist acknowledges that we are doing this while we are in our pain.

 

However, during this time we are to sow seed and that seed will return to us in another form. Here is what will happen when we do this: "He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him." We will receive joy and fruit from the seed that we plant during this time. Sheaves represent the fruit of a harvest and we will actually get a harvest from this seed.

We must not let the circumstances destroy us, but allow it to continue to mold us to be used in a mightier way for God's Kingdom and the calling He has on our lives. Though we may not see what God is doing and the fruit that God wants to bring from these circumstances, we need to continue to sow through the difficult times and in the end we will be blessed with the fruit of the harvest.