FIELD

When you are twenty-one days behind planting your crops you work from 4:30am to 10:pm.  If I want to see my husband the farm is where I have to go.  Last night at 9:00pm I went out to ride in the tractor while he pulled drains.  Off we went through a field that had been ripped, scratched and bedded.  The only thing this field lacked was the proper ditching so that the water would drain properly.  Traveling over the bedding was like a rough set of moguls while you are skiing.  The ride was bouncy and choppy.  When we would get over the beds to the turn rows the ride was smooth.  I couldn’t wait to get past the rough rows and to the easy riding. 

Our lives are like that of a bean field.  We can be ripped apart and the surface of our feelings scratched with anxiety.  We ride along with rough patches that are waiting for the circumstances that bring hardships to drain out of our lives.  We finally come to the turn rows where our situations turn around and become smooth again. 

To make our life rides smoother our Lord is with us to give us peace.  It is not up to us to figure out how to smooth the soil we must leave it up to Him.  He will pull the plug draining our lives of the hardships that have filled our lives with roughness. 

2 Peter 1:4 God has given us great and precious promises so that through these promises we can escape the corruption that the world causes.  It is when and only when we turn over our fields of rough patches to Him that He will drain them of the unnecessary dirty water and cleanse us with His peace.