If You Want a Harvest

If You Want a Harvest

If you want a harvest, plentiful, bountiful

There is seed you must sow far and wide

For there will be no beautiful flowers or fruit

‘Til the seed has cracked open and died

If you want precious oils, savory, fragrant

The process, it need not be rushed

The product is lovely and used for much good

But we forget something had to be crushed

If you want His Spirit to come live in your heart

My friend, to your sins you must die

Buried in baptism, that watery grave

Which somehow brings us to true life

In the upper room when the Holy Ghost fell

And quenched their spiritual thirst

It would have been empty, barren, lifeless

If Gethsemane had not come first

For where the will dies, is where God really works

He’s awaiting your surrender complete

And He knows how to give you all that you need

When you place your own heart at His feet

If you want a harvest, plentiful, bountiful

There is seed you must sow far and wide

For there will be no beautiful flowers or fruit

‘Til the seed has cracked open and died

Written by: Jennifer Connell ©

June 7th, 2020