Cultivating Your Heart
Trampled
by carnality and worldliness, the
heart disengages.
Weighed
down by worldly cares, the soil
cries for righteousness.
Disillusionment taking over, the
heart gives way to confusion.
Cracked
and broken, the ground's soil yearns
to be plowed.
With the
promise of righteous rain, prayers
for rain are heard.
Committed
to cultivating fallow ground,
repentance is pursued.
Coming as
the early rain, His righteousness
rains uninhibited.
As
righteousness begins to rain, His
love softens the ground.
As cracks
disappear, righteousness covers,
chains are unbound.
As ground
saturates, treasured hearts emerge
renewed.
Newness
emerging, transformation sprouts
with refreshed reality.
The
ground watered and nurtured;
increase gives way to vitality.
With a
spirit of joyfulness, the ground
gives way to new fruit.
Immersed
in wisdom and revelation, a surge of
power is felt.
As
downpours of righteousness extend,
new fields are plowed.
Coming as
the latter rain, covering the earth,
He extends mercy.
Made
entirely new, cultivated by His
Spirit, the anointed rise.
In His
fullness, fully matured, the harvest
is beautiful and glorious.
The
harvest completed, the earth's fruit
is excellent and appealing.
Having
escaped from worldliness, you stand
ready for His return.
Sow for
yourselves righteousness; reap in
mercy; break up
your
fallow ground, for it is time to
seek the Lord till He
comes and
rains righteousness on you.
Hosea
10:12
