Properly taken care of, but unused.......

When we have items that we cherish or value, we take care of them and we tend to expect some sort of gratification from possessing those items.  But often times, mental or emotional gratification is not always what we seek when we make outlay to purchase our possessions, we intend to make use of them for specific   expectations.

'Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and rain righteousness upon you' (Hosea 10:12)

'For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, break up your fallow ground and sow not among thorns'. (Jer 4:3)

• Fallow ground: a land that has undergone plowing and harrowing (well tendered?), and has been left unseeded for a period of time or seasons.

As people that believe in the Lord Jesus, who sits under ministrations, listens to sermons and probably read lots of books and materials on developing our belief in God, are we changed by what we either read or listen to from the word of God?  The word of God plows and harrows our grounds (spirits and souls), but the cultivation and nurturing of what has been planted in there is ours to do.

'For the kingdom is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.  And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey' (Matt: 25: 14-15)

Some thoughts;

• The master must have had conversations with his servants in the past, they are not strangers to him.
• He understands their several abilities(capabilities) and personalities.
• He has respect for their endowments(abilities) to commit his goods unto their hands.

If we are live with fallow grounds in our lives, we need to ask ourselves why these grounds are fallow and not engaged in the work of the ministry unto the LORD. 

Otherwise;

• We could be saying that the Lord has not done enough for those areas of our lives to be productive.
• Or, we could also be living in open or secret rebellion.

What are those things that the LORD has been saying to us that we kept procrastinating about? Those things we kept pushing off our plates in order to put other things of our own choosing.  (Roman 8:35 -39)

Let us be found doing what the LORD has commanded us.

'That you (we) might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God'.  (Col 1:10)

Maranatha!