Faith in God's Good Harvest, July 19 Worship

Jesus saw the farm fields around him as a place of drama. In many of his parables Jesus would point to those fields to illustrate the essence of God’s relationship to His Creation. As Jesus looked at those fields he could see the whole of God’s plan, from beginning to end. But how to communicate that plan to us? In the parable Jesus tells about Weeds we hear that despite every challenge God is still bringing in the harvest of what he wanted from the beginning. Even though there are weeds, God is growing wheat and He will bring it to harvest. Jesus is telling us that we can trust that God is carrying us toward His triumphant and amazing harvest.

The first and second hymn is LSB 794, “The Lord My God Be Praised”. The third and fourth hymn is LSB 549, “All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name”. If you have a Lutheran Service Book Hymnal at home, please sing along.