Sowing in Tears - there is only one remedy for overcoming painful circumstances that will result in joy. Extreme pain, especially emotional pain, can become immobilizing to the human spirit if it is allowed to overcome us. We are to sow in the midst of these times. Pain can become a source of joy if we take the first step by planting seed. There is a harvest that will come if we sow in the midst of tears. "He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him"

"Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy." - Psalm 126:5

The most difficult place to keep moving in faith is the place of extreme pain. 

Extreme pain, especially emotional pain, can become immobilizing to the human spirit if it is allowed to overcome us.

The psalmist tells us there is only one remedy for overcoming painful circumstances that will result in joy. 

We are to sow in the midst of these times. 

You cannot do this if you live by feelings alone. 

It is an act of the will. This act requires that we go outside ourselves in pure faith.

I learned this principle during one of the deepest periods of my life. I had lost much that was dear to me.

A mature man in the faith admonished me to reach out to others in spite of my own pain. 

"Invest in someone else," he said. 

I did not realize what a place of healing and comfort that would become.   

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

Pain can become a source of joy if we take the first step by planting seed. 

There is a harvest that will come if we sow in the midst of tears.

Os Hillman

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 1 by Os Hillman

tgif@todaygodisfirst.com

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