Friday! Proverbs!
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 14:4 ESV
Interesting!
The manger, the feed trough, the barn, it's clean, pristine, because there's no cattle, no oxen.
But if you want a good crop, a good harvest you need the beast to pull the plow...
So...the thing you want, the harvest, it's messy to produce it, there's a price to pay.
In our lives if we want to see a spiritual harvest, life is going to get messy. If you let the massive powerful oxen of God's spirit into your life to work out His harvest, your life won't be as pristine & clean & tidy...
Loving people can messy up our plans...are we up for that?
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