Good soil

For the most part, the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah are not inspiring. God expresses his extreme emotions of anger and sadness that his people don't love him or listen to him. But here and there, the prophets leave inspirational pearls between the lines of God's thundering heartache. Like this one:

Jeremiah 4:3 "...Break up your un-plowed ground"

In other words, take the areas of your life that are useless and make them fertile. God is throwing seeds at you, but they land on inhospitable ground. Break it up! Make it useful, make it profitable... make it vulnerable.

It made me wonder, what things in my life are packed down? What packs me down? I've met a lot of people who define "unsensitized" perfectly. No movie can offend them, no music can make them wince, they laugh at every perverse and racist joke.

What an amazing charge to us from God. Break up your un-plowed ground! Stop letting things pack you down, chose to be broken and receptive.

If my life was a field, too often I would only see one seventh of it plowed - the section called "Sunday." I want to break up the whole field so that it is ready for the sower.